Hardly Up to Date by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 17.

Hardly Up to Date.

By Editor

A highly-esteemed paper for the young people comes to us with the opening sentence of its first article saying, "Radium is a word unknown to the dictionaries, even to the Century." But the Standard Dictionary has this definition in its latest edition, which has been out about a year: "A recently-discovered substance having specially great radio-active power." In fact, the first appearance of the Standard is later than the Century, and it has enlarged its wonderful list of vocabulary words since. But it is difficult to keep right up to date in everything in these days, and while our esteemed contemporary halts in one thing we may stumble in another.