Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There were, he said, 444 farm bankruptcies for every working day of 1926; agricultural population shrank 2,000,000 between 1920 and 1925, though the U. S. population increased 8,500,000 in the same period; 31,000,000 acres of land went out of agricultural use in 1920-25; and at the present rate of agricultural shrinkage the time will soon come when poor crops will mean a serious food shortage...
...while church and pastor are busy with matters of far less moment and that wanderers are increasing at an alarming rate, must seem a grievous thing demanding immediate attention from those still in the fold. . . . Take away the materialistic character of the shekels needed for the sanctuary. Do not use such terms as 'assessments,' taxes' and 'per capita rates.' Merge money matters into acts of spiritual worship and service...
...founder and director of the Defensive Diet League; E. M. Perdue has a cancer cure. And then there is Koch-William F. Koch, M.D., Detroit, Mich.- inventor of the Koch synthetic antitoxin for the cure of cancer. According to his bulletin, some 300 physicians will gather to discuss the use of the Koch remedy in cancer. But one meeting is to be a joint meeting with the distinguished members of the American Association for Medico-Physical research. The Koch representatives should add tone to this remarkable assemblage...
Colonel Green plans to build a $1,500,000 airport on his estate, Round Hills, at South Dartmouth, Mass, (near New Bedford). He will have two magnificent runways, 3,800 and 2,700 feet long; a bay protected by a breakwater for the use of seaplanes; some of the finest radio equipment in the U. S.; spacious hangars, experimental buildings...
Five years have passed since genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...