Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Westermarck, in his Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas declares that among the Fiji Islanders the metaphor "as tender as a dead man" is in good use; and that throughout the South Seas human flesh is well known to be a delicious food "far superior to pork...
...have just given away my chateau! For the past four years I have been wondering what I would do with it-it is the Chateau de Taurines in Aveyron-a great massive castle built for defense against the Saracens, for which I have no-use...
...ways prevailed, and the crowd cheered; then the soft-spoken stranger won back his lost advantage and more too, so that he seemed to surpass the champion, and the crowd trembled. But the champion had been before in evil straits; he had hammerblows waiting; now, triumphantly, he began to use them. Slowly, remorselessly, he advanced until he was on even terms with his adversary, until he was ahead of him. With one more effort he would conquer. . The crowd quivered. The moment had come...
Daimler of England was the first motor car to use the sleeve-valve method of regulating gasoline motor intake and exhaust, the principles of which Charles Y. Knight had worked...
...service of the United States' Lines leans against its quay with a saddened bow, "Alas, sighs the prominent liner in the service, etc., "One feels one's age these days." And salt tears streak down the rusted sides. For out in the great open spaces where men use Mennen's and the young fry get their culture on Mont-martre, sweaters are crossing the old campus grasses with the essence of moth balls, prominent and newly shined fraternity pins-resplendent. The Third Class Tourists are home...