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Word: use (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flapperish-looking girl behind the bars took up the copy and when I went to hand her my money, she smiled and said, "It's a marvelous magazine, don't you think?" We conversed for some minutes, and I have a date with her. From now on I shall use TIME to help me pick up my dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...collection of water-colors by Professor Arthur Pope, which is on view at Doll and Richard, 71 Newbury Street, Boston, is, however, no ordinary exhibition. Perhaps the first thing that strikes one on seeing it, is the blazingly daring use of brilliant color, that varies from the brightest crimson in the "Mountain Ash in the Great Gulf," to the cool greens and lavenders of some of the other pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/26/1927 | See Source »

...When the trouble began," apologized the arm of the law. "I put them in a pocket where I thought they'd be safe. It's a caution how some of these students use their boots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY DESERTS AUTOS FOR COPS AND MURDERS | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

Perhaps one of the greatest evils in the mass production which is the modern factory system is the use of man power as machinery, a sort of machinery with eyes and fingers to give so and so many turns to such and such bolts as they pass by in an endless, changeless stream from morning till night; a sort of machinery that gets in the habit of doing its particular bit of work like the dog on the turnspit and requires about as much intellegence. It is this habit in factory work of which Mr. E. D. Smith will speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

...Company. Their directorates met last week. Said Mr. Cutting's directorate: We will build you a new theatre on West 57th street, Manhattan, to hold 5,000 people, to have 32 parterre boxes. Stockholders must pay $145,000 to own a 1/32 interest in the property and to use boxes twice a week. "Agreed," said Mr. Kahn's directorate. The new Metropolitan will be completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Metropolitan | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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