Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article about the year-old Pacific Spectator [TIME, Jan. 19], the stoutest attempt yet made to give the West Coast a magazine devoted to ideas rather than to house & garden hints, cheesecake, or the self-admiration of Hollywood. . . . But reference to "U.C.L.A.'s Dixon Wecter" calls for a word of correction. I meet a seminar on that campus one afternoon a week one term a year, but my main job is at the Huntington Library, where for the past two years I have been Chairman of Research. Whatever dubious credit arises from possession thus belongs mostly to the Huntington...
...Vandenberg himself had nothing to say. It was impossible, however, not to attach a certain significance to his silence. Eleven months ago he had issued a pointed, eloquent statement that he would not "connive" to get the presidency. But as Sigler & Co. began trumpeting last week, he uttered no word of rebuke...
...defense asked witness Lieut. Colonel Austin J. Montgomery how he could be sure the word Wada used was "concern." Said lean, bitter Survivor Montgomery: "I consider myself pretty much of an authority on Mr. Wada's English expressions. We called them Waddisms." The court also got superlative evidence of the American soldier's ability to wisecrack. Through parched lips, American prisoners had muttered: "Wada, Wada everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
Getting the word are (left to right): RABRAHA HIGGINS, of Angreta Malue; MARILYN MANNILY, of Falmonth; and SALLY FLETT, of Scaredale, New York. All are freshman irring in Cabet Hall...
...wade around a bit. "Perfunctory" because I was outbralled by a "colorful" speaker (Merwin K. Hart) in the chamber above and didn't learn that the three-ring Student Council show was aprogress below until a shirtsleoved and weary messenger appeared and gave me the word. Upon finally arriving at the scene of the plotting, I got into the feel of the thing a bit but rather expect that future Council meetings will be more comprehensible and, hence, result in more informative reports...