Word: verbalizations
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...Valera, Chief of the Republican Party, is reported to have left his secret hiding place and to be taking part in a verbal agitation for the Irish Republic. General Mulcahy, asked what will happen to De Valera if he shows his nose, answered laconically: "Wait...
Chemistry is the subject which Mr. Edison has used in his successful experiments with the pedagogic film. But it remains to be shown whether the irregularities of the French verb can be demonstrated by the silent portrayal of a Parisien in the act of verbal gesticulation...
...mounting price for petroleum products has not gone without an accompaniment of verbal fireworks. Senator La Follette could not quite bear to leave Washington this session without a final and characteristic fling at the " Standard Oil monopoly." In rebuttal, President W. C. Teagle of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey rather brutally manhandled the Senator's prediction of "dollar gasoline " by pointing out that at about 30? industrial alcohol could successfully compete as automotive fuel. Hard on the heels of this exchange, Chairman Bedford, of the same company, issued an even more thought provoking and pessimistic statement concerning...
Fortunately the men chosen are well acquainted with such verbal vagaries, and would be the last to attempt any such dictation. Their service must by limited to the spreading of he more conservative idioms in the hopes of creating a clearer and wider comprehension of them and to considering the more radical with an idea of submitting the more important to the acid test of popular use. In such a way it may be possible to influence the advance of language; to direct it is impossible. But if this group finds itself capable of promoting the unity of English speaking...
...battles through the monasteries on the number of angles who could dance on the point of a needle or the physical relation of Hell to Heaven the proposed canonization of a pious son of he Church always required the appointment of a "devil's advocate" to take up the verbal cudgels for the unpopular side of the argument. This until the connotation changes, will be much the position of the Conservative wing of the newly formed Harvard Debating Union. The present generation shied at the word conservative as a skittish horse from a piece of newspaper, and with as much...