Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns the body to bring on a fever in cases of chronic diseases of the joints, obstinate suppuration, cardiac inflammation following chronic ulceration. Using the thermo-cauterizer, a scientific and delicate branding iron, he lays back the skin at the affected area...
Victor sells a phonograph with a R. C. A. Radiola contained.† It also has the right to use R. C. A.'s research, as well as General Electric's, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing's, American Telephone & Telegraph's and Western Electric's discoveries in the field of acoustics & sound reproductions...
Those companies in return have the right to know & use Victor's laboratory discoveries. Closer comity between R. C. A. and Victor will at least reduce the overhead costs of selling. One shop can easily sell both types of machines...
...sells Radiolas also to the Brusnwick-Balke-Collender Co. for use in the "Brunswick Panatrope with Radiola...
...tell him, Mr. Fixit. I stutter." This bromide* has been put to good use by the alert Scripps-Howard newspapers. People metaphorically stutter when in trouble or when annoyed. They like to have some handyman appear when the water is shut off, when a neighbor's garbage is dumped in their backyard, when their cat gets the colic, when there is a hole in the road in front of their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would...