Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past 28, and have considerable knowledge of the world, you will, I trust, allow me to use my own discretion in matters of this kind." To Edward VII (Prince of Wales, just before the christening of her grandson, now George V): "I cannot admire the names you propose to give the baby. I had hoped for some fine old name. . . . George only came over with the Hanoverian family...
...opinion, health education is one of the fundamental aims of a modern public school system." A long conference brought out health recommendations for school rooms: Keep the temperature always between 66 degrees and 68 degrees F.; establish lighting standards at least equivalent to those in factories, counting rooms; use window ventilation, with deflecting boards, and not mechanical ventilating contraptions...
...most effective in the use of text, to Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation's Business, for an ad for that magazine...
...most effective use of pictorial illustrating, to William D. Humphrey of McKinney, Marsh & Gushing, Inc., Detroit agency, for the Hay's Glove Co. The artist was Roy F. Heinrich of Detroit...
...York Herald Tribune considers the use to which the increased revenue will be put as "justification for the step." It goes on to say: "The greater the number of undergraduates competing in some form of athletic endeavor the better it will be for the college and for amateur sport in general. What to some may seem an intensification of the spirit of commercialism may possibly bring quite different results...