Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report came in saying: "The Oscaloosa graveyard shift pulled three nixies in a Mother Hubbard." But First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett might have to scratch his head over such a message. In any case, there is no reason why U. S. postmasters should not use everyday language. So last week First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett instructed his subordinates to omit "technical" terms from their reports...
MISS HOUGH in "Not for Publication" presents a story of everyday life in an average town situated, presumably, on the Case. Pomanset is its name, Boston its exemplar of good taste, and it boasts of two daily papers, the Banner and the News. One could not reasonably expect extraordinary developments from such a situation. Miss Hough has not attempted the ridiculous...
...practical education? or was it not folly in the beginning to set up state colleges upon the same bases and with the same objects as private colleges? Public institutions, even though practical, may well carry the burden of vindicating scientific knowledge and careful study as an approach to everyday professional and industrial tasks. And private institutions may retain the task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge of one thing in its truest light involves knowing many things, and may retain, as its province likewise...
...touring opera company came to town when he was 12. "'Suppose everybody always sang every-where,' I mused, 'in the streets, in the baths, at the workshops.' The idea charmed me and naturally began to convert everyday life into opera, singing the answers to questions asked me and greeting my friends in song...
...theory that editorial utterances based on a misapprehension of facts might be adversely influential with some of the newlyweds who may not be so personally familiar with the merits of the Bissell sweeper, although most established homes consider the Bissell sweeper just as essential as ever for the everyday and many times a day sweeping requirements...