Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot-putters and hammer throwers were not so well defined as the steel rings which are now in use...
Take the refinements in watch-making. That is apparent by a glance through the I. C. A. A. A. A. records. Watches that recorded half-seconds and quarter-seconds were in use in the early years. Then came time-pieces which recorded seconds in fractions of eight and for several decades the fifth-second watches were used by the timers. Finally, in 1922, came the tenth-second watches, and while some of the sprinters feel that this watch is unfair to the old dash marks, the tenth-second watches are now used annually at the intercollegiate meets...
...office of the Business School has notified the Bursar's office, which was given charge of the rooms in the three dormitories, that it might become necessary for the Business School to use some of the remaining accomodations. The numbers of men from other departments applying for rooms, will probably be limited from...
...advantages and has profited thereby should now gladly attune his ear to the University's appeal for needed financial assistance. That a need exists is proven by the very fact that the appeal has gone forth; our University asks for money not in order to have it, but to use it, to keep abreast of the times, and to maintain her primacy in education. To whom shall our kindly mother turn in her need, if not to her sons? Shall we be outdone in loyalty to Harvard, and in giving to Harvard; by those on whom she has less claim...
...once in a while myself. But Harvard has no more need of being completely Semitic than she has of being completely Celtic. Being an American university Harvard must be a synthesis of various types, or better of various individuals--all of which is too well known for me to use here...