Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After breakfast he usually slipped into his swimming trunks for a few hours of splashing in the Atlantic, and a session in the hot Florida sun. In the afternoons, he napped, thumbed through state papers, or got worried word from Administration leaders in Washington. In the evenings he usually took a hand in the regular poker game...
Tory M.P. and Punch Editor Sir Alan (A. P.) Herbert wanted to know how Follick's phonetics would cope with the word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...
...PREFER IT AS IT IS." But the Evening Standard felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...
...like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term that may include neurosis or psychosis. A lot of operations could be avoided, Alvarez thinks, if the doctor asked his patient a simple three-word question: "Are you happy?" The answer might give the clue to an unhappy home or job that led to the nervous breakdown. No out-&-out Freudian, Alvarez believes that a normal man can get a nervous breakdown from overwork. A smart general practitioner, he said, can often find out what...
...following announcement: "The Dean's Office wishes to call to the attention of all students that in accordance with past policies, no credit towards the Harvard A.B. or S.B. degree will be granted for any summer work taken elsewhere than at the Harvard Summer School." This is the final word; the policy allows no exceptions...