Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reversed conditions that obtain in the British Isles. Politics absorb most of the leaders, having great industries to shift for themselves. The coal-mining industry, that is one of the largest in England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth that defy description. It is among the workers in such quarters as these that the sentiment...
...from being an enemy of corporations, Justice Brandeis became invaluable to them because of his exhaustive knowledge of their needs. In many railroad cases, the Supreme Court defers to his judgment. Only three weeks ago, he handed down a decision forbidding the coercive use of the strike (TIME...
...James Matthew Barrie, anatomist of sentiment: " 'I have lost the use of my right hand,' I announced, in sending to a charity auction the MS. of my play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. 'At the completion of that play my right hand (probably frightened at the sight of my calligraph) gave out,' said I, 'and I have ever since had to write with my left.' The MS., which fetched $1,025, was auctioned by Major Hon. John Jacob Astor, Chairman of the London Times Publishing Company; and William Harrison, who has been buying...
East. C. V. Burnside, I. C. C. examiner, tentatively approved the Reading's desire to lease the Lehigh & New England for $1,069,000 yearly during 999 years and thus to get a route into the northeast-provided that the Reading permitted other lines to use the same route...
...admire but not to share. But the man of letters has no such monopoly of his art. He has merely pursued it further than the laboring man who knows how to order a meal in English. The language is common property. The man who develops his manner of using it to the plane of art may use tools that are more finely tempered, but they are of the same shape as those employed by the most commonplace writer. Words must give the thought its visible form. So the man who aspires to write with grace and distinction tries to create...