Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significant. And the indifference with which Congress greeted the recent speech of Senator King on the subject shows that the government is as reluctant as ever to give up this profitable possession. On this occasion it was asserted that American dominion was being used as a cloak to exploit the resources of the archipelago...
...scarcely in a spirit of playfulness that Henry Ford first turned the spot-light onto Mellie Dunham, onetime citizen of Norway, Maine. Nor did he to exploit the slight talents of an old man merely for the sake of kindness. In the clever way of great men, he is pulling the strings behind a stupid venture, quite as unpractical as his unfortunate Peace ship a few years back. He hopes, with Mr. Dunham's aid, to revolutionize the disgraceful state of modern dancing...
...foppish habit of dress, his astounding height and his skill in the painting of miniatures, leaped into the seas that pounded over some rocks near Biarritz, and with Raoul Fourquet, lifeguard, lost his life in an attempt to rescue a drowning Englishwoman (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). Inspired by this exploit, one George Conlon, a native of Frostburg, Md., executed a small marble, "To the Heroes of the Sea," which was put on exhibition last month at the Biarritz Golf Club. A committee, organized by the Mayor of Biarritz, has raised funds to copy the design for a large memorial...
Cried M. Painlevé, as he stepped down from power: "Vive la Republique! But let her friends guard her well. There are many who would exploit her to the fullest in this critical hour...
...only nine miles from the pale cliffs. But against her, also, the tide turned; the undertow clutched at her thighs; the chill of the seas began to penetrate her courage. Once she was 1¼% miles from shore-the nearest that any woman has come to achieving the exploit, but at length, unable to make progress, she was picked up, and her tug chugged back toward France...