Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word from Home. In Des Moines, canny State Representative Harold Nelson left a cigar box planted with corn sprouts atop his desk, felt confident that restless farmer-legislators would demand adjournment when the sprouts began to sprout...
...Japanese take the word "dear" literally, even at the start of a letter. Last week General MacArthur took care to begin his letter to Japan's Premier with a curt "Mr. Prime Minister...
...have been news. Apra had often used gangster methods in politics; it had been blamed for the still unsolved murder last January of Rightist Editor Francisco Grana (TIME, Jan. 20). Perhaps now Peru's dominant party was going to restrain itself. At least the Jefe had given the word...
...girls has to worry about New Mexico's educational standards, because Los Alamos School is responsible only to the town Board of Education and the Atomic Energy Commission. Any student who wants to go to college just asks Wegner for a recommendation; the colleges seem to take his word. Says Superintendent Wegner, with a twinkle: "The school at this point does not have a long history of successful graduates to offer colleges, but on the other hand it has no history of unsuccessful graduates...
...journalist," said he, "sometimes reflects that his art is one of improvisation, and that its products, being destined to pass with the interest of the moment, require no great care in their workmanship. Yet, just because it is the day's report of itself, it is the permanent word of that day to all other days. The press must be free because its freedom is a condition of its veracity, and its veracity is its good faith with the total record of the human spirit...