Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Industrial development goes hand in hand with the progress of electric energy." . . . In Great Britain the use of electric energy is much less per capita than in the United States and the energy is not produced or sold as cheaply as here. ... A cheap and abundant supply of electricity is our aim. . . . This will have a beneficent effect upon British industry and tend to alleviate the unemployment problem...
Today the official engine of execution at Havana is the garrote, a strangling machine. Up to four years ago Cuba's garrote reposed in the National Museum, shuddered at by thrill-seekers as a barbarous relic of the old Spanish regime. Then in 1925 it was restored to use by the suave but ruthlessly dictating Cuban who is still President, His Excellency General Gerardo Machadoy Morales. Though of mild appearance and a wearer of business-like tortoise-shell spectacles General Machadoy has been accused of having political enemies thrown to sharks (TIME, March n). His revival of garroting...
...Johns-Manville Corp., Insulite Co. and U. S. Gypsum Co. were wrong last week. Instead, both Johns-Manville Corp. and U. S. Gypsum Co. entered into marketing and distributing pools with Insulite Co., remained competitors of each other. The Manville-Insulite agreement is that Johns-Manville Corp. will use and market Insulite's rigid wall board, insulated against heat (used for partitions, kennels, stage props, mirror backs, outhouses) west of the Alleghanies. The Gypsum-Insulite agreement is to merge their distributing resources in all parts of the world since gypsum, like Insulite's products, is used in building. Mined, gypsum...
...occurred with-in the past few decades. Several of Mexico's greatest living artists first went to Paris where they thought they were cubists, surrealists, neo-impressionists. But when they got tired of Art for Art's sake they went home and looked around. They saw that no use was being made of native material. The official artists were but feeble, academic imitators of the Spanish school of Zuloaga. Plainly it was impossible to superimpose Spain on Mexico...
...Shelley Notebook, which is in the Treasure Room of the College Library, has long been a valuable accession for students of the University, but it has been impossible to make as much use of the volume as was desirable, because of its immense value. The publication of the facsimile edition will make the treasured notebook available for more general use, consequently increasing its practical value as a reference. It is a small volume, filled with verse written in the hand of the author...