Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidates for the degrees of A.B. and S.B. may apply, in writing, at 4 University Hall, not later than 5 o'clock on Wednesday [IV] June 16, for not more than three tickets for the use of friends to the exercises in Sever Quadrangle on Commencement morning. The actual number of tickets issued will necessarily depend upon the number of applications. It is hoped that three tickets may be issued to each applicant...
...situation For the fictious opponent of the Retired Humorist, namely, Mr. Liberal Broad, does not, in this set debate, attempt to repute the allegation that college comics have "but two sources of inspiration, bootleg liquor and an unbridled sex motive". Nor does he object to the pernicious use on the adjective "freuent," applied to suppression by postal officials. He does not even suggest that postal officials are poor judges. Evidently Mr. Liberal Broad, does no., is a man of straw, capable only of trite generalization upon the questionable premise assumed by his adversary, that college comics and literary productions...
...extremely tired. I want nothing but to sleep. For three days I have not slept or seen my wife and children. Had I a free moment I would use it to sleep and sleep again! But I have so many important things to do. ... I am quite surprised that we have succeeded so quickly. Everything went like a stroke of lightning! There were extraordinary scenes in this unprecedented battle. As it was, the battle was often suspended to allow women and children to move...
...Morgan loan has been repeatedly declared "untouched" by the French Government. Naturally its use last week?if it was used?was carefully concealed lest speculators gain an inkling of the extent to which the Government is prepared to embark upon salvage operations...
...diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow us to misuse a word. Not only would he point out the misuse, but he would explain its misuse and stress the correct use of the word. And he was always interesting. I do not know a man who could be so absorbingly interesting in the explanation as to the use of a single word...