Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Representatives has now come to number 435. Nobody wants any more Congressmen?even 435 are too many to be of any use except when they are split up into a variety of committees. Each member now represents an average of about 250,000 U. S. inhabitants. But the injustice lies in the fact that whereas some Congressmen represent less than that number of males and females, some represent a great many more. Notably, Congressman Crail of the Los Angeles-Hollywood district is the sole voice of 1,250,000 people, so that a vote in Los Angeles...
While Viscount Ennismore was at Oxford people called him "Will" or "Mr. Hare" because he so insistently asked them to. He was a Socialist, he said, and so he had no use for his title...
...use for me to guess," she smiled, "I could never guess their names in the wide world. I'm not clever at guessing," and the Prime Minister's wife passed...
...Sixteen Yale alumni were prohibited from buying tickets for Yale football games because they did not use the seats which they had contracted to occupy at Yale-Harvard game last fall...
There are about 300,000 cards on file at the School of Public Health, affording an invaluable mass of data on the external causes of disease. Without the machine it would be almost impossible to use these records...