Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond the Rockies Harvard is a "brain factory," only to the equalled by the University of Chicago. Hybe word "factory", West Coast residents indieste to the production of great intellect, write to a single thought to the development of than able to get along in the world...
...Manhattan, after extensive conferences among top stars, sponsors, advertising agency and network executives, the National Broadcasting Co. revised one of its oldest traditions. From now on, the word "diaper" may be used on NBC air-in a dry way, that...
When, in 1936, General Emilio Mola announced that he would capture Madrid because he had four columns outside the city and a fifth column of sympathizers within, the world pounced on the phrase with the eagerness of a man who has been groping for an important word. The world might better have been stunned as by a tocsin of calamity. For what Mola had done was to indicate the dimension of treason in our time...
Miss West lights up the darkness of this trial with fierce flashes of observation. But none is so shocking as the reaction of Joyce when he heard the word "hanging" casually mentioned in court. By an unconscious reflex, he raised his hand and with his finger touched his throat...
Last fortnight, her 2,500-word report on the Princess Elizabeth wedding was dashed off in time to make the London Evening Standard's early afternoon edition and the New York Herald Tribune's morning edition (TIME, Dec. 1). It was a mood piece with one notable dig at the Labor government. Her jab was about a huge national savings advertisement sign opposite Westminster Abbey: "An imaginative administration would surely have blanketed it for this...