Word: signposts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer a requirement for social success in the university...
...agreement is a signpost to international cooperation, a light along the gloomy path of world relations. Handled delicately and sensibly it may lead, eventually, to a redistribution of gold and a return to the gold standard. Here, at last, is something to look forward to, not with foreboding, but with hope...
...certainty. Mencken himself, modestly disclaiming any clairvoyance on the subject, sticks stoutly to his factual report on what the American language has been and now is, but thinks American the coming tongue. Calling himself a lay brother, "surely no philologian," he intimates that his book is but a temporary signpost, serving its turn until the completion of such monuments-in-progress as Sir William Craigie's Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (begun in 1926 at the University of Chicago, now well under way).* For The American Language, though it lists a vocabulary of 12,000 terms...