Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral as the quotation itself, but I must blush for your translation-"more sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful." Such a rendition assumes that Pliny wrote in the manner of a modern encyclopaedic general and columnist who is both ribald and biblical, and that the Latin word "certe" had assumed new meaning since the birth of Christ. . . . The Romans swore in a different way, invoking Hercules, Castor, or Pollux most frequently. . . . SYDNEY J. MEHLMAN Brooklyn...
...from the standpoint of correctness in either spelling or proof reading, the word is "cames" meaning H-shaped lead strips, serving much the same purpose in stained glass fabrication as do muntins in ordinary wood or steel windows...
...word of this did Franklin Roosevelt allow to creep into his public utterances. Business has never been the favorite child in his political family. That place has been, reserved for Business' weaker brother, the underprivileged "one third" of the U. S. population ("ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished"). The President was at pains not to show any signs of changed feelings...
...utterances after he left the White House, he spoke of "balanced abundance" that "seems to recall the trapeze." Of the Liberalism of the New Deal he remarked: "Its folds can apparently even be entered through the Ku Klux Klan. . . . When you deal with other people's money, the word is conservative, not liberal, especially with a capital...
...Majesty Queen Elizabeth, enthroned in the House of Lords, sat with lowered eyes and attentive mien last week while His Majesty King George notably triumphed over his speech impediment, read off without a single mispronounced word and with few hesitations the Speech from the Throne, thus opened the first Parliament of the new reign. The 18-minute speech, composed as usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges...