Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets past the abstract values of the situation and faces realities the publications of honor become very complex. For honor embraces not only regard for the truth but fidelity to obligation as well, and pressure of the latter can easily confuse the student into thinking that the use of a crib is not only harmless but even honorable. All students are under heavy family obligations, parents have paid hard-earned money for their education, and expect passes, not flunks. In addition, athletes are under heavy obligations to the student body. They have been showered with adulation, and they are expected...
...Earnings over and above the efforts of labor and the use of money should be turned back into the business, one-fourth of the profits to be kept to keep the business progressing and the remainder returned to the members in proportion to the amount of business transacted...
Thus by a weaseling of words, the committee was saved from admitting that mankind is not yet ready even to use the word disarmament, much less accomplish the fact...
Worried Frenchmen grew panicky as Finance Minister Péret offered to resign, since even his use of the long-boarded Morgan loan (TIME, May 31) had failed to stabilize the franc. President Doumergue and Premier Briand conferred, decided that M. Péret must continue his efforts...
...they sat in sessions-little sessions, big sessions-talked music, not in a hushed, long-haired way, but loudly, statistically. "More than a billion dollars," they were told, "is spent each year by the people of the U. S. on music in all its phases. . . . Ten million pianos in use today in the U. S. alone...