Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union this month a year of unprecedented activity and varied accomplishments will come to a close. The Union this year has secured for its speaking programs prominent men who were able to talk on subjects of interest to the undergraduates, it has been active in sponsoring and encouraging the use of club tables and has had under its direction the Harvard Debating Union. Besides these it has carried on the usual social and athletic activities of former years...
...journalist. For it is here that he can see for himself, form his convictions which if he is ever fortunate enough to become editor of a newspaper or by sheer force of personality break into politics at home--a rare thing, by the way--he can use with telling effect...
...wife and I were in just a year earlier when whiskey was prescribed in the cases of three or four children who were near death from typhoid fever and pneumonia. Of one of them it may be said with certainty that he could not have recovered without the use of this medicine...
...deputies wished further to express their sympathy by holding a great mass meeting in the National Theatre, at which Dr. Sacasa might present his views. But President Ricardo Jiminez of Costa Rica refused to allow the deputies to use the National Theatre for this purpose, saying...
...long time after railroads became practical for travel there were no provisions for sleeping. People sat up or slept in. the floor filth. Then, in 1836 the Cumberland Valley R. R. of Pennsylvania built some bunks into a second-hand coach. Travelers could use the roller towel, basin and water provided in the rear of the car. It traveled between Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pa. Later innovations were straw ticks, blankets, cuspidors. Travelers used their carpet bags for pillows...