Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ability last week at Curtiss Field in quest of a pilot's license. He landed at a mark with and without power, did figure eights and other evolutions. Dean Percy T. Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward to New York last week, Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld and Mechanic Arthur Spindler reached Dublin, Ireland...
...recognized in medicine. Last fortnight it was lauded on opposite sides of the globe. Professor William Brown at Oxford University told in the second of the Terry lectures at Yale about curing alcoholics, drug addicts, shell shocked soldiers by hypnosis.* In Odessa, Russia, Dr. J. Kalachnik reported the successful use of hypnosis in childbirth...
...meeting will be the second of a series to be held to determine "What Should Progressives Advocate in both Platforms in the Coming Campaign?" The question is asked, and will be answered by the Democratic Club, which is planning to draw up a platform for use in the coming mock convention to be held the first week...
...taken French 1, French 2, or German 1a, all deemed sufficient for a reading knowledge, knows that passing these courses may mean almost anything but a knowledge of French or German. It may mean a ready ability to use trots, to remember passages read over by some one else, to memorize certain books laboriously translated; but only incidentally will it mean a facility in reading French or German. Scarcely, if at all, better are the special language examinations. A little luck in hitting a passage seen somewhere before, a knack of guessing at words and construction under the pressure...
...problem of the reorganization of the equipment department has been studied from every angle, and it is after months of effort, work that has been constant since early last fall, that Gamache and his assistants have devolved the plan now in use...