Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half a dozen copies on the shelf - delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks to indicate the comparative importance of the objects in an art collection ? Your "famed" and Baedecker's asterisks are simply highly condensed symbols for indicating relationships which could...
...squash courts last year gave our club the largest squash department of any club in this country. It is intended to furnish our members the best facilities for playing squash. We propose to maintain a highly efficient staff of attendants, headed by a thoroughly competent professional. Invitations to use the courts during the least crowded hours will presently be extended to members' sons who are not yet old enough to be eligible to membership. During the year 18,904 games of squash were played, which is probably the largest number recorded by any club in the world...
...order that a special assignment may be made of the rooms in dormitories D and F which the Business School has offered for the use of the University, it will be necessary to have a guarantee of at least 150 applicants. As there is, however, a possibility that these dormitories will not be completed by the opening of College, all assignments, provided at least 150 men signify their desire to live there, subject to the completion of the buildings by September...
...economics, geography, sociology, and the employment of these tends always in the direction of adding importance and significance to a study which formerly was the concern mainly of the antiquarian and the propagandist of patriotism. It is a question whether the faculty at Harvard has made the fullest possible use of these tools. Certainly eminent although some of its individual names undoubtedly are, there is at the University no thriving school of modern investigators, and most of its great achievements have been the achievements of single...
...important that the Faculty has undertaken to devote considerable effort in the next few years to this problem. We expect to write headnotes for cases, to digest cases already in the files, and to index, collate edit, and improve this mass of material for the more ready use of teachers in other colleges...