Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exceedingly practical Hoover, with an infinite capacity for work, a great favoritism for the word "leadership," and no very large interest in the speculations of philosophers and the day-dreams of an academic world...
Just often enough to lend variety to these daily reports, word comes of a big trade. The great Hornsby is obtained by the sacrifice of three other players, and at once newspaper sporting editors break into violent print over the inevitable salvation or destruction caused the team by the deal. The argument goes on without results, and will continue to do so until that April, day when the teams return. Then facts replace theories and the crack of the bat announces the beginning of a new year. For spring has not really come until the mayor throws out the ball...
...Avoid the word 'Romanism' when 'Catholicism' is intended...
...written in cablese. The second is a skeletonized cablegram. The third is the way such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...
There are 880,000 words in the Bible; 940,000 in the complete works of William Shakespeare. Add these together and season with the Arabian Nights of Scheherazade; the mixture will fail to fill a pot as big as that which would contain the Revelations of a Wife, 3,000,000-word novel, longest in the world...