Word: originally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firemen said damage was principally in the Harris tweed section of the shop, but declined to estimate the extent of loss or speculate over the origin of the blaze...
...that part of the trouble is in the feeling that the attempt should be made. Lincoln did not start out to write a statement of democratic faith in the Gettysburg Address, but to dedicate a graveyard. The American epic, if it is ever written, may have as unpretentious an origin...
...most horrible oaths in the language can sound like pink tea if pronounced in a sterile tone. Professor Johnson does not go into the profundities of profanity. Treating it as a branch of literature and as an anthropological study, he has dug up some engaging data on its origin, its flowering and its decline. He prints James Stephens' poem, A Glass of Beer...
With shouts of triumph, the delegates endorsed a "Declaration of Principles." It condemned "this infamous and iniquitous program [of] equal access to all places of public accommodation for persons of all races, colors, creeds and national origin." Then they nominated South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond for President and Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright for Vice President...
...London, Tory M.P. Leonard David Gammans put it more bluntly: "This is . . . Moscow-inspired, Communist in origin, and part of a worldwide attack against Great Britain...