Word: generically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court of the U. S. settled the breakfast-food issue. Out of a solemn huddle came the Justices with a decision that the term "shredded wheat" did not belong solely to National Biscuit Co. Six-to-two (dissenters: Justices McReynolds and Butler), they found "shredded wheat" simply a generic term by which a "biscuit in pillow-shaped form is generally known to the public...
Last week, without warning or explanation, the 68-year-old City Bar reversed many a previous vote, decided that the word "he" in its constitution was a generic term, hence applicable to women...
...Check List of the Birds of the World", Volume '3, by James Lee Peters '13, Curator of Birds. $3.50. The third of a series giving a compete up-to-date list of all known birds according to their generic limits. The book covers 142 genera and 1675 forms. Published April...
Fifteen pictures and a group of preliminary drawings were on view, all grouped under the generic title of "Feminanities." Typical was one called Hope Springs Eternal. In a department-store basement a group of bedraggled female shoppers, including a spectacled schoolteacher, a colored wench and a draggled woman in a raincoat and hangdog stockings, are standing around a counter at which a pert blonde shopgirl is demonstrating some kind of face cream...
...unnecessary to consider in detail all the ramifications of Mr. Fruchs' argument. His general conclusion is that the generic evil will come to an end only in some far distant communistic world-state. That the generic evil should ever be ended; that it is not necessary to progress, as such writers as Nietzsche and many capitalistic economists would maintain, is established largely by saying unpleasant things about Nietzsche and capitalists. Unfortunately, also, any proofs of the possibility of such a state, or proofs that it would actually accomplish what it set out to, are details which Mr. Fruchs does...