Word: wording
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...designate as pacifists all those men who are opposed to compulsory military training, we are beginning a glorification of the word "pacifism," a word odious to most Americans during the war. In this category of 'pacifists" we would then be obliged to put such men as Colonel Logan and Major-General Sherburne--they are opposed to military training. We think those gentlemen would resent such implication. Certainly their friends would...
...good act is a beautiful act," says Mr. Whitman in his "Philosophy of Beauty." This is treading on rather dangerous aesthetic ground since the word Beauty is by Definition (thought not by usage) in its own sphere. The point is best described by the difference between connotation and detonation. Does, for instance, the sight of a beautiful limousine make a man feel pious? Mr. Whitman is inclined to substitute attribute for subject. Even so, the writer has known or heard of few men who come out of aesthetic arguments unscathed...
...philology, besides works in his particular field of Sanskrit, he composed French and German grammars and translated several foreign books, among them being Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell." He had the general supervision of the publication of the "Century International Dictionary" and was the author of numerous writings on word derivations...
...misrepresents our position. In the sentence "Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the 'evolutionary' growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery, violence and destruction as has accompanied the Russian Revolution," you printed the word "revolutionary" in place of our word "evolutionary...
...college, and gains the admiring interest of untold millions of newspaper readers, and hears the wild applause of the thousands who see the great game. But I've often asked myself whether it ever occurs to the athlete to think that it is precisely these qualities-in a word, downright sand- that go to the making of the great scholar...