Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Kansas audience, he said: "I have tried to be kind to Arthur Capper. I love him. But I don't want to have a man 80 or 90 years old representing us in writing the [peace] treaty that will affect you students and my grandson." The word went down the line that only a miracle could now elect old Arthur Capper...
...Bradberry found a U.S. mail pouch containing $239,000 in currency lying beside the Atlanta & West Point Railroad tracks. He turned it over to postal authorities, who grabbed the sack, subjected him to gimlet-eyed questioning, finally told him he was free to leave-but did not utter one word of thanks...
Said Farmer Rhinehart: "Right away he puts his hands like he was giving them to me for a present-like to ask me where he should start working. We can't speak a word to each other but we sure piled up a heap of understanding. I hope this is just the beginning. Room here for lots more Poles, Jews and whatever kind of farmers they got left...
...Humphry Davy (1778-1829) named it aluminum. British scientists changed it to aluminium to harmonize with sodium, lithium, etc. Britain still uses the extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a garden or park. * Davis got his start in Oberlin, Ohio in 1886, peddling kitchenware made of the little-known light metal which his friend Charles Martin Hall had learned to make cheaply. Hall, who died in 1914, left $9,000,000 (one-third of his estate) to Oberlin College, which consequently...
...brokers flashed the word, the Stock Exchange was deluged with orders to buy. In the final hour of trading, close to $30 million worth of shares were sold; the highspeed ticker fell behind as much as five minutes...