Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telegraphic code can be taught in a shorter time when the student was in hypnotic sleep. This is a great lead to those who want to know How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. I believe that the dear Mr. Nolan, a very shrewd man, would use the idea if he were alive today. Backward students could be lulled to knowledge while they reclined peacefully on their Davenports after a night of ribald revelry. Or the good Widow might have made Trilbys of them and sent them to the examination in a somnambulistic trance stocked with formulas, epitomes...
...library that is to be his workshop he stepped, paused, smiled at friendly objects: his desk, his favorite chair, many of his books, all brought carefully from the White House. Here he may work when he wishes to stay at home; on most days he will continue to use the executive offices in the right wing of the White House...
...grant the data submitted to you may be of use...
...yield to fashionable conventions, it seems to me that the theatres are as much devoted to public use as anything well can be. ... I am far from saying that I think this particular law a wise and rational provision. That is not my affair. But if the people of the State of New York speaking by their authorized voice say that they want it, I see nothing in the Constitution of the United States to prevent their having their will...
...Significance: possible use of Rocky Mountain waterpower current in the Mississippi Valley, of Niagara's power in Manhattan, of Muscle Shoals by the southern hinterland; power for farmers; de-centralization of industry...