Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less interesting--and that in itself is doubtful--it is certainly not less vital. No class in America today is receiving as great benefits from the present spread of higher education. Hitherto farmers have had immense resources but they were handicapped by a complete ignorance of how to use them. And pratical agricultural training as it is being taught in numerous institutions does give the future farmer a better idea of his problems, if it does nothing else. Economically neither the urban nor rural class can exist without the other; intrinsically, neither is the more important. The press, the chief...
...About 1908 some of the better coaches realized that it was possible to use a scientifically planned offense in such a way as to capitalize weakness indicated by the defensive team whereby the defensive team was individually or collectively out of position. Percy Haughton was one of the first to recognize this fact and for years remained in advance of other coaches by planning plays to utilize any error in the opponents' defense. Other coaches gradually appreciated and duplicated his methods. This very naturally resulted in various coaches so planning and teaching defense that these weaknesses ceased to exist...
...ball. It assures that the signal will be understood by the whole team. It allows for slight modifications in the plays to take advantages of weakness in the defense. Furthermore it allows men to be shifted in the lineup without attracting the attention of the defense, thus making better use of the available weapons in a perfectly legitimate manner...
...flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous that you've got to use a parachute, then don't fly. ... Or get a plane with more than one engine. . . . Stunt flying isn't commercial aviation. . . . Flying is no greater step forward over driving an automobile than driving an auto was to clucking to Old Bess between the shafts of the one-horse...
George might chat concerning the aces or Bond Street styles--but would Calvin be interested? Calvin, on the other hand, could discourse with some use and a great deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such...