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Word: employs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team's record this fall has made it look as though it has gone through an amazingly varied series of ups and downs. This has not been due much to fluctuations in its playing ability as to the type of attack they employ. Defensively, the eleven has maintained a high average but offensively they have appeared different in almost every game. The reason for this is that the offense is built largely on deception, and as far as the ground-gained statistics at least are concerned, its success has varied with the opponents gullibility to this deception...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

...medication was so clearly described in TIME, May 17 that we could employ the method immediately without waiting for more medical details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: TIME to Legion | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...team operates from a double wing formation, and lines up on the offensive with the unbalanced line carried to its logical conclusion. Only one man flanks the short side of center, with five chargers on the strong side. They employ little razzle-dazzle tactics, relying chiefly on straight running plays and "Wildcat" determination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Davidson Wildcats Primed to Renew Civil War in Stadium This Saturday | 11/10/1937 | See Source »

...Popular Front Cabinet today to "keep order"-but that any onetime Premier should so utterly lack discretion as to blurt out brutal facts of this kind and give the politicians' show away, last week astonished Europe. But there was no outcry that French Democracy should no longer employ "secret funds" since these are considered a necessary weapon always in reserve for quick action against the quick-acting dictators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dead Men | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...almost 14,000 ft. of cumulative climb on the Lincoln Highway, 10,000 ft. will be missing in the new road. Only bottlenecks will be the two-lane tunnels. The almost $400,000-a-mile cost to widen and surface the road, to drain and finish boring tunnels, to employ an estimated 17,000 men for three years, is to be paid for by the eventual users-$1 toll per car, $7 for trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Dream Drained | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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