Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, March 15, there appears a protest [from D. C. Chisolm] against the use of the term "Negress" to denote a woman of my race...
...until he was 80 did his fatal illness manifest itself?an affection of the heart. That was complicated by other troubles, which required an operation last summer. During the fall he lost the use of his legs, two weeks ago his condition became worse, and in the last few days before his death he sank rapidly until his faintly beating heart ceased altogether...
Last week the House Committee on Weights and Measures heard the opponents of the Britten Bill (TIME, Feb. 22) which would require the use of metric units in place of English units in retail merchandising and in transportation...
...greater part of a decade has elapsed since prohibition became national and the word Volstead was minted for household use. Yet last week while Andrew J. Volstead, three years since retired from Congress, was quietly busy in St. Paul investigating the validity of manufacturing permits for the use of industrial alcohol, a wave of anti-prohibition sentiment rose. How large the wave may have been, how much genuine and how much propaganda-made, there is no saying. But it made a big splash...
...Officers' Training Corps should be abolished" was changed to the present one in accordance with the request of the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton debating councils for a question of lighter nature. The subject chosen is intended to furnish an opportunity for the play of wit as well as the use of logic and profound argument...