Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, I would have enjoyed TIME, June 28, much more if there had been a different picture on the front cover, happen to be one of the millions who had to use "bullets" instead of "ballots" to put "Wilhelm Der Zweite" where he belongs. I was glad to use bullets, in 1918 to endeavor putting him off his throne and I wish I could have used a ballot in 1926 to deprive him of the riches and property which are not his by right and use them for the relief of the poor German people who need...
...Department of Commerce last week revised its figures on world motor car consumption, announced that there were 24,000,000 in use. This in nowise alters the proportions of one car to every 71 persons in the world, to every six in the U. S. (TIME...
...rolling. Jones took an iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that meant riches, pleasure, fame. Jones had two to win. His first putt missed. Turnesa was frozen now. If someone yelled, if a lightning bolt fell, if a caddy dropped a bag, Jones...
...Bill, putting control in hands of a commission of five, thereby relieving Secretary of Commerce Hoover of one of the many regulatory problems which have, since 1920, fallen his way. Radio commissioners' salary will be $10,000. The theory of the bill is expressed in the declaration that "Use, but not ownership of channels of radio transmission will be allowed under license for a limited period of years." (Bill went to the House which had already passed a one-man radio-control bill. Differences between Senate and House bills are to be settled in conference between now and December...
Next day they had grasped one of the felons, tossed the pirate in the gaol. He confessed, said that he had been hired by a "master mind" to steal a half million dollars' worth of the art treasures; his employer probably intended to use them as models for commercial imitations...