Word: pronoun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...
...said Craig, and repeated the pronoun to make this a better constructed sentence...
...offers an important enigma, not a smart conundrum with the solution on the last page. Instead, at the bottom of the last page: "Dirty Reed interrupted, 'New jobs,' he began, 'new bosses-' " first person. Avoiding the vanity of this approach, Author Walker uses his pronoun mainly as a lens for objective experiences. For reader as for Harris Burnham's fiancée, there is resentment against his preoccupation with factories...
...high one, for it left the carved facades of its urban centres over what is now British Honduras, Southeastern Mexico, two-thirds of Guatemala and part of "Spanish Honduras." To this oldest American civilization archaeologists have agreed to give the name Maya(pronounce the first three letters like the pronoun my). This is a name of uncertain origin, connected with a late Yucatan capital called Mayapan. It has been extended to cover a great nation which once numbered many millions...
...agree with me that nothing raises said parent's ire like having his child called an "it." If you do not know the sex of a child when relating an incident, it would be perfectly permissible to repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very much. However, I must agree with one of your correspondents that there is nothing very restful about the curt, jerky way you have of telling things. But you do tell the latest...