Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haugen bill (opposed by the Administration, demanded by many farm interests), carries a fund of $375,000,000, which contemplates Government purchase of farm surpluses in emergency to maintain domestic prices, and will impose (after two years) a tax on farm products to provide for losses in the use of the fund...
...Invented by a French doctor, Antoine Louis, and originally called the Louisette. Later it was named for another French physician, Dr. Guillotin, who proposed its use to the French Constituent Assembly...
...Critics and Faustophiles flocked to the performance, found it a travesty, to be sure, but not wholly irreverent. One of them regretted that Faust had not thought to use a fountain pen, that Mephistopheles had not thought of a monkey gland operation; commended, nevertheless, the Opera Society's enterprise; prophesied a profitable...
...houses of the Philadelphia type, and some of them apartments. The total number of families that will be provided for in this first contract is 43. The houses will be built of local brick and will provide three or four rooms for each of the small families that will use them...
...hard for the human mind to conceive of a distinction without super-imposing labels of inferiority and superiority. In moments of quiet like the present, however, the conception of a respectful separation is somewhat easier than usual. And the use of this moment by the Survey Graphic in devoting its entire May issue to the discussion of the oriental problem is therefore felicitous. Although the articles form a symposium and do not lead to a categorical conclusion, an approach to a summary lies in Chester H. Rowell's contribution, "Windows on the East...