Word: formed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Government had avoided considering it he did not say. He knew as well as the British that when Britain runs out of cash for buying cash & carry, aid to Britain will cease unless the U. S. offers a new kind of aid. That aid might take the form 1) of simply giving Britain arms, 2) of bartering Britain arms in exchange for other valuable considerations (as was done in the destroyer deal), 3) of loans to Britain. Of the alternatives, the last was the most likely. If so, the President didn't let it worry him. He was looking...
...baby, Plan E and proportional representation for Cambridge, is apparently in for more trouble despite the 7,500 vote majority given it in an election referendum. Yesterday Assistant City Solicitor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo, acting as a private attorney, filed a petition asking the Supreme Judicial Court to declare that form of government unconstitutional...
...prankster left, he announced that he "liked the form of the course, but not the substance...
Cleverly chosen artificialities, collectively representing the tinsel world of both men and peacocks, form the main body of "Concertino for the Death of a Favorite Peacock," also by Abrahams. The poem propels a telling shaft at a world crowded with forests of obelisks, pilasters, and Byzantine roadhouses...
Rudyard Kipling acknowledged Seton's influence on his Jungle Books. Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known became a lucrative best-seller in 1898, the model for scores of animal stories. Seton claimed that his stories, unlike such tales as Reynard the Fox, gave "in fiction form the actual facts of an animal's life and modes of thought." Many doubted this, and a great controversy over "the Nature Fakers" began in 1904 when John Burroughs, in The Atlantic Monthly, abused Seton and his disciples as frauds and phony naturalists. Ornithologist Chapman, Novelist Hamlin Garland, Sportsman Teddy...