Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farmer-minded" is a good adjective, but it needs specific definition for the public. There is perhaps no better exposition of what that compound word means than the program laid down by the convention which used the word...
...Sudanese then, apparently, rushed to the hospital, killing one British doctor and two Syrian orderlies. They barricaded themselves in the compound of the hospital and remained there until the artillery was brought up and began to fire. Then they surrendered. Casualties: two British officers killed, nine men wounded; the Sudanese lost one officer...
...body of the unknown Japanese patriot who committed hara-kiri several months ago close to the compound of the former U. S. Embassy (TIME, June 9) as a protest against the enactment of the U. S. Immigration Bill (TIME. April 28, June 2, et seq.) is to be disinterred from Aoyama Cemetery and reinterred in the military cemetery where lie some of Japan's greatest heroes...
...epithet, "plutogog" has few equals. It supercedes the seductiveness of a sibilant with the harshness of a Greek compound. It is a word which will positively drive the bill-collector and the wolf from the door, and reinforced by "peewit", may even stave off the landlord for another month. Away, plutogogs...
...teaching arithmetic, criteria of social utility should supplant old formal doctrine. "Useless processes": derivation of cube roots; common divisors and least common multiple beyond the power of inspection, metric system, troy and apothecary weights, complex and compound fractions, annual and compound interests...