Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merit of many contemporary American authors is recognised in South America and most of their works which have been translated into Spanish are very popular. The South American field, however, is rather neglected by American publishers. Your technical magazines especially are of great use to us as authorities in scientific and industrial developments...
...replace older forms of measurement in the countries where it has been adopted. Professor Kennelly spent last year in Europe investigating weight and measure practices in the 30 nations which have adopted the metric system. It was found that only two older units of measure were in common use in any of these countries. In the Balearic Isles the inhabitants still use the old Spanish ounce, and in parts of Germany the old Rhenish inch is still used in lumber measurement...
...casualness take the place of enthusiastic interest and brilliant appreciation they are open to the severest censure and condemnation. To many, the English Department has taken on that character to a decided degree in the past few years. It is a pity that one cannot be brutally frank and use names; but when one of the "promising young instructors" tells you that it is his "job" to lecture and that it is not his or anybody else's business how his audience responds to him, and, consequently, literally talks to the ceiling to convince you and himself of the impersonal...
...This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...
ALREADY in its third printing, Schnitzler's "Daybreak," has quite proved its right of succession to "Rhapsody." Probably no living writer excells this author in the short episodic novel form. Old enough to retain the fine art of story telling, Schnitzler knows the use of the new school of psychology, and employs it without intrusion. The story is remarkable for its drama, and yet the author escapes the melodramatic without sacrificing emotion...