Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excess of $3,000,000.00. A new building has been erected at a cost of about $1,000,000.00 and an endowment fund of equal amount has been raised. It is not seeking to become a great tomb of art. The collections on display are there for the use ond instruction of those whose interest in art is more than a polite gesture and the more completely these collections represent the great periods in art the more completely this great teaching institution can realize its ideals...
American college youths have so long been accustomed to a paternalistic attitude on the part of the institutions that they might fail to realize the benefits accruing from the suggested period of research at their own will. In English universities, where the plan is now in use, it has been the product of gradual evolution, and the students there have been brought to a gradual understanding of the importance of properly utilizing their pre-examination respite. To suddenly thrust such a change on the college students of this country might raise serious difficulties for the plan, and possibly result...
...instance that "every Scholar shall on the Lord's Day carefully apply himself to the Duties of Religion and Piety; and whoever shall profane said Day by unnecessary Business or visiting, walking on the Common, or in the Streets or Fields in the Town of Cambridge, or shall use any Diversions there-on or otherwise Behave himself Disorderly or Unbecoming the Season, shall be fin'd not exceeding three Shillings...
...foreign sales of face powders, rouges and creams have developed promisingly in Latin American countries, led by Cuba," the Society summarized. "Men as well as women in these countries are much given to the use of scents and lotions." Chinese women demand U. S. hair lotions and nail polishes. U. S. dentrifices are the best in the world...
Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...