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Word: use (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...family, my husband is the subscriber and I am the reader of TIME. He says there is no use for him to read it because I memorize it as soon as it comes and tell it to him at the dinner table. I assure him that I give him only teasers but I strongly suspect him of superficiality because he doesn't read every word every week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Boomed Rear Admiral Fiske: "The British interests demand that Britain shall continue to dominate the sea trade of the world and dominate it with British guns. Our interests demand an equal right upon the sea. We are rapidly coming to a point where, to use expressive slang, we've really got to put up or shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wardog Warnings | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Government and the defense, in order to find out whether rich men can thwart the process of justice by having a staff of able attorneys or whether witnesses can remain abroad indefinitely after being served with subpoenas. The big issue is whether the possessor of great wealth can, by use of legal talent, detective agencies, tampering with the jury and through the absence of important witnesses in Europe, defeat the aims of justice and keep out of the penitentiary. The whole sordid scandal is like a dead mackerel in the moonlight. It stinks and stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Dead Mackerel | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...time between next Monday and the Christmas holidays will be devoted solely to the fundamentals of track, and no time trials will be held until January, Coach Farrell said. The long distance men will train with roadwork until unfavorable weather forces them indoors. They will then use the cinder track to avoid the strain on the leg muscles caused, by running long distances on wooden boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK SQUAD TAKES BOARDS ON MONDAY | 12/2/1927 | See Source »

...Already Use Recitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELD OF ROMANCE TONGUES ADAPTED TO READING PERIOD | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

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