Citations:Usanian

English citations of Usanian

Adjective

• 1947, Journal of the American Institute of Planners‎^[1], volume 13, page 35:

  When, however, he surveys the USAnian scene, as he has been doing in the past months as chief French architect of the UN Planning Commission, he comes closer to being able to put his theories into practice.

• 1953, American Institute of Architects, editor, Journal of the American Institute of Architects‎^[2], volume 19, page 22:

  The afternoon at Lauriston Castle, incidentally, was marked by that same freedom from both oppressive formality and unseemly high-jinks which constitutes the principal difference between British and USAnian gatherings of this sort.

• 1959 May, George H. Hambley, “Your Letters: ‘Why not USANIAN’?”, in The Rotarian, volume 94, number 5, page 54:

  Let me say a word of commendation, however, for you boys, you “Usanian” friends, over in the States.

• 1971, Norman Ward, “Where But in Usania”, in John Harold Redekop, editor, The Star-Spangled Beaver‎^[3], Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, →ISBN, →OL, page 5:

  And even without Usanian invasions, Canada is carefully training companies of regulars to make invasion unnecessary. A whole generation of professional educators graduated from Usania, or from faculties influenced by Usania, schooled in Usanian concepts and Usanian solutions to Usanian problems, has skilfully kept Canadians from being curious about Canadian social, political and culture institutions, and refrained from telling English Canadians much about French Canadians, apparently because Usanian educational theory does not acknowledge the duality that is Canada's.

• 2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems‎^[4], Paraverse Press, →ISBN, →OL:

  That [censorship] is because the book I found it in was published when Japan was occupied by the Allies or still pretending to share in Usanian Puritanism. (p 20);
  Nowadays, Usanian youth wear their crotches around their knees. (p 28)
  note that unlike Usanian Confucianisms, it plays on something actually in the Analects (p 38);
  If Martial were writing in Usanian English (p 216);
  To most Usanian readers this might seem a serious matter (p 323)

Noun

• 1952, Journal – Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, volume 29, page 52:

  Whenever we get into conversation with a Canadian or a Usanian on a train, we find him ready to talk about his home town.

• 1971, Norman Ward, “Where But in Usania”, in John Harold Redekop, editor, The Star-Spangled Beaver‎^[5], Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, →ISBN, →OL, page 3:

  Who but a Usanian could think up a digest magazine whose readers can confidently anticipate, in issue after issue, articles such as “Friendship can be made to pay”