Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME would drop the use of such words, and would change its "screaming red cover" to one of quieter hue, it would please the more conservative taste of some of its readers. ALICE DRESSER BARTHOLOMEW...
...whose warriors defeated and killed General Custer at Little Big Horn. From his many Western descendants, Sitting Bull would appear to have been as prolific as the Mayflower was capacious. (I Fishermen everywhere were shocked to learn that President Coolidge, on his first fishing expedition in Squaw Creek, had used worm-bait in catching five trout. Flies, they said, were the only proper trout-bait, but the President specifically stated that he had used worms and showed a coffee-can full of wrigglers to prove it. He said, however, that next time he would use flies. The President...
...practice of reserving public parks for the use and delight of the people seems to be as old as civilization. The Egyptians had parks from the earliest times...
...without authority of parliament, with only private encouragement of public men. Hundreds of natives were employed in excavating, removing. The people of Greece showed no resentment. Indeed the interest attaching to the work brought tourists. The tourists, then as always, spent money. As for the Turks, they had little use for Greek relics, other than as objects upon which to inflict spiteful blows when human victims were wanting. In 1816, a select committee of the House of Commons reported to Parliament in favor of formal purchase of the "Elgin marbles" at a price of ?36,000. The proposal was accepted...
Ironically enough, now that the left hand has learned the cunning that was lost by the right, the right shows symptoms of returning to health. "See," says Artist Lawrence, slowly lifting his paralyzed arm, "I will soon be able to use them both...