Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paragraph quoted in TIME, Jan. 14 issue, from a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt from me John C. Box of Texas, of whom I've never heard, is fairly representative of the expressions of those who continue to use their efforts and influence to ''break up" the Democratic part...
...work; part for more thorough, stringent surveillance of breweries and distilleries to prevent illegal distribution of high-powered beer and diversion of industrial alcohol; part for intensive, nation-wide education campaign, employing best talent to prepare accurate, striking posters and circulars emphasizing danger to individuals and to society of use of intoxicants, also the physical, economic, personal and social benefits of abstinence and prohibition, appealing to patriotic citizenship to abandon and discourage self-indulgent, demoralizing lawlessness...
...informed, Mrs. Eddy did not, at any time after 1866,** believe in the use of any drug as a curative agent in connection with the practice of Christian Science. Nor did she at any time after she became a Christian Scientist, either use a drug or allow one to be used for her, except as she employed, in a few instances, an anesthetic for the purpose of temporary relief from extreme pain...
...sold not to sailors but to motor car owners and their families. To build a boat that a landsman can operate-and that in most cases he never will operate out of sight of land-to build an engine that is as nearly as possible foolproof, to upholster softly, use bright colors and plenty of nickel: these are the present day objec tives of the motor boat designer. Thus, a Sea Sled salesman, addressing an unnautical prospect, explained the mooring of the boat by remarking: "You just put a rope on here and tow her right into the garage...
...useless to legislate against such a personal matter as birth control." Mrs. Cora Hodson, former editor of the Eugenics Review of London and at present Secretary of the Eugenics Education Society, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "In spite of laws," she continued, "the use of contraceptive measures is extensive among young people and the educated classes in the United States, while there are 24 cities in your country with clinics attempting to spread information on birth control among the lower classes where the birth rate is the highest...