Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although "swine" is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments, its use by squat, choleric Stefan Raditch for perhaps the one thousandth time in his life produced an astounding effect...
...Budapest the Hungarian Prime Minister and virtual dictator, Count Stephen Bethlen, was greeted when he entered the chamber last week by Opposition shouts of "grafter! . . . herder! . . . PIG!! . . . resign or we'll bring guns and use Skupshtina methods here...
...Nash. The first of the manufacturers to put autumn models on the market is the Nash Motors Co. They are sixes, grouped in three series. Prices range from $885 to $1,775. "Twin ignition,* high compression. . . . I don't think anyone will ever want to use all the speed and power they deliver," says President Charles W. Nash...
...with excerpts and illustrations-"Trader Horn" heavily bearded, chugging a pipe; the same man, less bearded, dragging Cecil Rhodes from the jaws of a crocodile. Critics cavilled, questioned the veracity of many incidents, doubted this man had experienced them all. Whether his narrator's instinct consciously prompted the use of the first person, or whether in his senility he confused hearsay with his own experience, or whether he actually experienced the myriad thrilling episodes of his reminiscences, was subject of speculation...
...opening of the lecture amphitheatre of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Medical Centre, Manhattan, a little old Dutchman, Professor C. W. Ariens Kappers, got up to talk. He began immediately to use the names of mysterious and exotic sicknesses-African Sleeping Sickness and how it had been cured by Bayer, malaria injections and how they helped general paralysis (TIME, April 2. June 4). For several minutes Professor Kappers stressed the past success of quiet cures wrought in maniacs and melancholies by somnifen injections over a period of 14 days. Somnifen produces a hypnotic sleep in which there...