Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter mentions enclosing a poem on the subject of her admiration-a poem which your footnote declares was top long to print. I should be very happy if you would send me a copy of Miss La Vie's poem as I think I could find use for it in the pages of our magazine...
...King" to Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipsic publishers. They, suspicious of the MS. from Vienna, wrote to one Franz Schubert of Dresden, Royal Church composer, inquired if he had submitted the song. The answer: "With the utmost astonishment I inform you that this cantata was never composed by me. I will use every endeavor to discover who has so discourteously sent you this bit of patchwork and expose the scoundrel who so misused my name." The "patchwork" was written in 1816, accepted for publication...
...They have no paid ministers. Workers receive bare expenses. Excess money gathered from believers go to further their spread of "Pastor" Russell's, now Judge Rutherford's, ideas.* Those ideas are that the Bible, the Prophets and Revelations especially, forecast and prefix all earthly doings. By judicious use of Biblical excerpts Bible Students have "established" that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," have governed human affairs. Cosmos I is assumed to have begun with Adam and ended with the Flood, at 4128 B. C. Its duration was 1,656 years. Cosmos II is assumed to have begun with...
...sign of national health that people are preferring this year larger designs and more pronounced colors. Yellows are coming to the front, tending to make oranges of reds. The stifling effect of great buildings and small apartment rooms is being offset by the use of scenic papers...
...Patented in 1903 by Robert E. Knight of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Walter Travis, many times an amateur champion and noted especially for his putting ability, brought the " Schenectady" to fame in 1904 by using one to win the British Amateur Championship. In 1905, the British Golf Association barred centre-shafted clubs from its tournaments. In 1920, the U.S.G.A. followed suit. But, like the forbidden rib-faced mashie, "Schenectadies" are still widely in use...