Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearing of the apparently successful serum treatments in Texas, Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, onetime (1913-20) Assistant Sec retary of the Navy and Democratic candidate for vice president in 1920, who contracted infantile paralysis in the epidemic of 1922, but regained the use of his legs through warm mineral water treatments, revealed the formation of a Georgia Warm Springs Foundation which, with a fund of $75,000, has organized a special hospital at Warm Springs...
...personality. After he moved to Manhattan he collected art, raised fine cattle, went to the opera. But just before he left Wheaton, Ill., to be head of the Federal Corp., a friend found him sitting with his hunting coat, bag and gun in his lap. "I will never use them again," he said...
Further, let not Subscriber Epstein make unbridled use of the term...
...Baldwin unquestionably took note of the fact that President Coolidge went on with preparations for the Parley even after his invitations to France and Italy had been refused (TIME, March 7). This and other facts bolstered up a British theory that President Coolidge wanted a "European diplomatic victory" for use in campaigning for re-election and might be prepared to yield a good deal to get it. Thus the British Government reputedly did not sound out the U. S. Administration quite so thoroughly as would have been wise had they expected strong resistance to their demands...
Feeling perhaps that his days grow fewer while his ideas multiply, Mr. Mr. Wells, the great educator, addresses himself more and more directly to his fellowmen. This time* the particular parties addressed are such British aristocrats as may have retained sufficient energy and money to be of use in remaking the world...