Word: availed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic of his fantastically huge estates, was hawk-nosed old Don Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres Count de Romanones last week. Solemnly, fervently he declared to the Agrarian Reform Council: "Never, in all the years that I served King Alfonso [several times as Premier] did I ever avail myself of my privilege, as a Grandee of Spain, to remain covered in His Majesty's presence at Court...
...already recognized that some students are not benefited by the tutorial system, but these are not necessarily poor students. Some good students feel themselves superior to the system and do not avail themselves of its opportunities. Some poor students derive much assistance from their tutors in course work and in preparation for general examinations...
...ballots sent out last year to members of the Class of 1933, only 372 were returned. If there were ever an appropriate moment to abolish such an outworn system, if only for economy's sake, it is the present. The Council has refused to avail itself of the opportunity...
...York, reluctantly put spirituals on their programs and went to sing in Henry Ward Beecher's Church in Brooklyn. The first time he heard them Preacher Beecher, as ardent an abolitionist as his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, sat down and addressed a letter to his parishioners: "Avail yourselves of a rare opportunity to hear a style of music rapidly passing away, music . . . sung as only they can sing it who know how to keep time to a master's whip...
...more notable changes that have been made...have been designed to promote the four trends, and especially the last... They are merely a means to an end, and others might have been quite as effective; but these are the ones we have tried, and it would seem not without avail...