Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural resource before Arizona herself is ready...
Pleasure Man was a ridiculous and stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...swirls of scientific research, industrial promotion, amusement purveying and financial synthesis, the greatest U. S. amusement enterprise became imminent last week. Last spring Radio Corp. of America organized as a subsidiary R. C. A. Photophone Inc. to exploit a method of making and reproducing sound-pictures. Photophone is similar, and interchangeable, with Fox's movietone films. Both change sound waves to light waves, and reproduction reverses the process. Warner Bros, vitaphone uses phonographic discs for sound accompaniment with its pictures. Vitaphone and movietone had close tie-ups with cinema producing, distributing and exhibiting companies (TIME, July 9). Photophone...
...somehow, fail to hit the mark. The opening tale, from which the collection draws its name, is an intimation of a desire of the author's to get away from the middle western background and attitude which featured his novel. In the future he will seek new fields to exploit and will let alone the Middle West which he believes is fast losing its character...
...polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American Sketch (society chit-chat). New here, Mr. Nichols has doubtless been informed that it is not customary in the U. S. to exploit the President...