Word: referring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such phrases as "We" gather about themselves a wealth of imaginative color. But also, as the ancient myths came to be liberally disproved, so are modern ones likely to fall, the most recent casualty coming with the reported statement of Col. Lindbergh that "We" did not in reality refer to himself and his plane. But, also like older myths, present ones are not easily discredited even when disproved. It would seem likely that by now Col. Lindbergh will have more difficulty in demoting "We" from its false pedestal than he had in placing it there last spring...
Dispute. In a row between Greece and Bulgaria over the indemnification of refugees for property lost in the exchange of populations, both countries agreed to accept the Council's ruling to refer the matter to the Permanent Financial Committee. The indefatigable Sir Austen Chamberlain referred to the dispute as one "that might have disturbed the peace of the world" and added: "At a time when certain individuals are trying to underestimate the value of the services which the League can render, here is an example in which, thanks to the intervention of the League, the cause of peace...
...July 18 issue on p. 5 I first found something that grated against my sense of propriety. I have noticed it several times since. I refer to your use of the sign "&" in lieu of the word "and." This would be all right if you were referring to the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., but when you speak of "President & Mrs. Coolidge" or "Senator & Mrs. Norbeck," it reminds me of Ring Lardner's pseudo-ignorant style which seems entirely out of place in TIME...
Wasn't that a typographical error in the story you published in the current issue of TIME (July 25, p. 23, col. 3) under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face...
...commercial careers of most of them are bounded on the one side by a graduation exercise and on the other by a wedding ring, or possibly a baby carriage. But those women workers whose activities are concerned with higher things than chocolate-dipping, bargain counters and the touch system, refer to their careers rather than to their jobs and are deeply concerned over any " discrimination" shown against the woman worker on account...