Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oils. As painters always have done, he experimented sometimes with various unorthodox methods and pigments. He was very careful in working out his sketches. From this great care, however, arose his single technical fault, for in order to keep the outline workable from day to day, he could use paints which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally suited him, he would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really a lacquer which dries out itself very quickly, but does not affect the paints lying beneath it. If such a painting is subjected to rough...
...result of the recent agreement with the Pathe Exchange Film Company to use a certain number of motion picture films for the purpose of illustrative instruction in its courses the Department of Anthropology has made known the three most important types of films that will be produced, on the subject of school geography. It is the opinion of the division that the scientific knowledge of its staff can be devoted with profit to the tasks of developing the subjects of human evolution and the building of civilization by means of films not only for adult students but equally for children...
...films prepared for university and college use will cover much the same ground as those designed for secondary schools, but the titling will be more technical and the subjects will be developed in greater detail
...first Japanese Symphony Orchestra, was not slow to summon tuneful minions who entertained his guest. Attentive were the ears of Pole Stokowski. Later he said to correspondents: "I am confident of finding some way in which the tones which are embodied in Oriental music can be interpreted for Occidental use...
...discuss and even to loaf if they think they can get away with it. The faculty is trying the experiment of suspending all classes and most of the lectures between the holidays and midyears. Except for laboratory work and conferences the student's time is his own. The use he makes of it presumably will be shown up by the exams. The idea is that education is too much time-tabled, and that young men ought to have some chance to seek wisdom instead of having it forever thrust upon them...