Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...suggest that if you are trying to use the old-fashioned form of address found in the King James Bible and surviving to some extent in poetry and prayer, the proper form is "How Art Thou?" But if it is the Quaker usage you are striving after, the form is "How Is Thee?", though I do not know whether the Quakers actually use this phrase...
...highest office in the land, before his nomination, speaks of himself as one who will be nominated "damn quick." Now, won't Christians all over the country relish him ? Pity it is that people who sincerely desire clean government cannot have someone to vote for who can use clean words in expressing himself. And this is Willkie...
...mighty nation to first train me well, and arm me well before ordering me to do battle. I wish to know beforehand where I must go, which gun I must pick up and in which direction I must shoot it. I wish to be trained in the offensive use of my weapon because surely in its offensive use will lie our best defense, but whether in offense or defense I want my efforts to be formidable and without proper training they aren't likely...
...excellence of the Aalto furniture may help to discourage manufacture of some furniture that now passes for modern. The Aalto purpose is to use U. S. mass production to get their designs into ordinary U. S. homes. Though their simple, substantial furniture is well fitted for mass production, the Aalto assembly line has not yet cut prices to the ordinary buyer's range. In full operation, it will retail an armchair now priced at $29.50 for $19, a $47 chest of drawers for $24, a $15 side table for $9. The Aaltos have already attained space-saving by designing...
...Basic English (TIME, March 12, 1934, et seq.). A simplified English devised by C. K. Ogden, containing only 850 words but capable of expressing practically any idea, "Basic" made great headway in the middle '30s. Not only did students in many countries find it easy to learn and use, but English and U. S. writers discovered that translating their thoughts into Basic never failed to clarify them. Basic schools were established from Prague to Peking and Saigon...