Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student will not be favored unless of exceptional scholastic ability. Living at home, his activity at Cambridge is generally confined to library, laboratory and lecture room, so that he is unable to become an effective part of the college tradition in many important manifestations. Also, the Entrance Board will use every available source of knowledge as to the applicant's personality and character-- statements from his preparatory teachers and from acquaintances, not relatives, even a photograph...
...sourdough" is an old-stager who knows enough to use yeast in making his bread and not to live on bread stirred up impromptu...
Thus the only way in which the team scoring a safety can keep possession of the ball following a safety will be to use the onside kick...
Last week Madame Jeritza filed suit against the Cohens. Her full name, she explained, is "Maria Popper de Podhragy Jeritza, widely known throughout the civilized world." Could the name "La Jeritza" mean anyone else? Did not every Frenchman, Italian, Spaniard, use the definite article "La" to refer to her, the supreme, the only Jeritza, pre-eminent soprano of four continents? And this name the 'Messrs. Cohen had usurped. They had put it, over the trade name of "Cohen Bros.," on two kinds of box. One kind contained some dismal cheroots affectionately known as "Little Cigarros." The other contained larger cheroots...
...have already made large use of the document in a book soon to be published, and this investigation is supplementary to that. In a word" said Professor Lowes, "the notebook is of the utmost value as an indication of the currents of the times as they influenced one of the most brilliant, if not the most brilliant figures of the time...