Word: availed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your utmost influence to induce The Emperor to give careful and favorable consideration to these proposals and on no account lightly to reject them. On the contrary, I feel sure that he will give further proof of his statesmanship by realizing the negotiation which they afford and will avail himself of them...
...between using professional tutors to help along their self-education, and thus honorably, or merely hiring a third person to get them through college with as little education as possible, which means dishonesty and waste. But only an unimportant and inconsiderable proportion of undergraduates would or will continue to avail themselves of the offending facilities after a statement from the dean's office, threat or no threat...
...white hair, Representative Hogan lasted the minimum two years in Washington, then drifted back to resume rooting for the political potatoes which are left for small-bore Republicans in Democratic Brooklyn. After a series of public jobs, he set up a private office where persons who wished could avail themselves of his experience in government...
...Internationalism of the Soviet Union since the days of Lenin gives me the right to call this statement a lie. ... A demand for proof of your statement would probably avail me nothing-and embarrass you a lot. Even the ''infallible" editors of TIME are human. So my purpose in writing you is merely to express the conviction that some researcher in Soviet America of tomorrow will uncover this letter in your expropriated establishment and experience a tiny glow of appreciation for my hopeless, but well-meaning effort to confuse the omniscient...
...Committee on the Harvard College Non-Resident Students' Center has decided to open the membership opportunity to those members of the Freshman commuting student group that desire to avail themselves of this offer and to pay the annual $10 fee if the number of those wishing to join warrants it. Your names should be signed to notices to this effect that have been posted in Phillips Brooks House, the Union, and at the Center itself...