Word: z
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...according to President Frederick E. Trotter of the Honolulu Board of Health. In an undersized, zinc-lined coffin of koa wood, the remains were flown back to Honolulu, where they lay in state. Aboard the U. S. Army transport Republic, the coffin was to be carried to Cristobal, C. Z., transferred to the Belgian schoolship Mercator, taken on to Antwerp. In Belgium the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary, Father Damien's order, have already set in motion the long, deliberate machinery by which the Roman Catholic Church canonizes saints. So insistent were pious Belgians, so sure...
...seems incomprehensible that the professors we know would submit to such political chicanery. We can see Prof. X of Soc'y, Y of English, Z of Chemistry, throw down his books before he would...
Last week a Federal judge in Ancon, C. Z. directed a jury to dismiss, for insufficient evidence, the first count?that Publisher Rounsevell had compared Colonel James V. Heidt to Adolf Hitler, in an editorial intimating misuse of company funds...
...producing the latest of their great dictionaries elegant savants of the French Academy began on Nov. 5, 1885 with "A" and worked until last-week when they reached the final "Z." In previous editions the last word had been zut!-French for "Go to the Devil!" At their final, historic meeting last week the French savants added zygomatique, thus adopting into French the fanciest English adjective for cheekbone...
...their X, Y, Z home stretch, the Academy's 40 Immortals also adopted "Yacht," the last of a long line of English sporting terms which Frenchmen have been twisting on their tongues since they took up le sport. At one ponderous session the academicians considered "Yankee," pronounced it with aversion, decided officially that "Yankee" is a word having no rightful place in French...