Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their loud demands to be accused of treason and given their day in court were ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word of it reached the Staff in time for the coup to be nipped (TIME, Jan. 17). After this startling development, suggesting that French Army leaders knew a great deal more than the Chautemps Cabinet was eager for the public to learn, trouble was bound to pop- and last week...
...jury's verdict was in his favor, the trial judge set it aside. Last week the Appellate Court upheld the trial judge. Reason: According to De Paul, ten years ago John B. Fuller was Rev. Bernard J. Fuhler, Austrian-born priest of the Society of the Divine Word, who taught at St. Mary's College (Techny, Ill.), was sent to the University of Chicago for his Ph.D., then departed for Europe on leave of absence after quietly marrying one Arline Kuber in Buffalo. All 'that St. Mary's heard after that was that Father Fuhler...
...brief grounding in semantics is a life work in itself. Modern semantics dates from 1923, when two English professors. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, wrote a book called The Meaning QJ Meaning, followed by Ogden's invention of an 850-word vocabulary called Basic English. Indicative of the complexity of semantics is the fact that while Ogden is an orthologist and psychologist and Richards is an esthetician, important contributions have been made by a Polish mathematician, Count Alfred Korzybski, and a Harvard physicist, Percy Williams Bridgman. Semantics ranges from the equator of Basic English through the lush...
...chances are about even that the issue will be a satisfactory one, that they will stay placed and find their work congenial. It is principally to these men who are tempted to step blindly into jobs tendered by friends and relatives that the Alumni Placement Office would utter a word of caution and ex- tend what assistance...
With her scrambling of familiar word groupings to break down associated ideas in the reader's mind, making a complete denial of the usual meaning, Gertrude Stein contributes intangibly in her "play" on Daniel Webster. Saroyan's "The Pool Game" proves that he can create an objective tableau which has artistic form. "Letters to Christopher," by Mcrle Hoyleman, are strangely captivating. Perhaps the best writing is found in Delmore Schwartz's two stories, of which "The Commencement Day Address" is admirable for its moral as well as verbal edge...