Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Webster's New International permits "papist" as the shortest synonym for Roman Catholic. Nevertheless, the word has so often been used in bitterness that TIME will no longer use it, except when quoting persons who say "papist...
...Coolidge farewell speech, in which was some careful research on foreign alliances. "He [Washington] warned us to beware of permanent and political alliances," said President Coolidge. "The phrase 'entangling alliances' is not from him but from Jefferson." Taking his cue almost verbatim, Ambassador Herrick said: "Washington did not use the phrase 'entangling alliances' but warned against permanent alliances." This was no mere echo, for Mr. Herrick, in Paris, said it some five hours before President Coolidge in Washington...
...safety-razor stand Empire Salesman Wales remarked with just a touch of ballyhoo: "I always use one of these myself. It is a jolly sight safer than the old-fashioned...
...request of the Dartmouth Athletic Council for the use of the Harvard Stadium for a football game with Leland Stanford University two years from this fall will be referred to the Corporation, the only body with authority to grant or withhold this favor. Although the remoteness of the event may make the question appear unimportant, there is inherent in it a kind of test...
Harvard has received a request from Dartmouth for the use of the Stadium for a football game with Stanford University on November 28, 1931, it was announced yesterday at the athletic offices of the University. Dartmouth, having completed a two year agreement for home and home games with Stanford, will play on the Pacific coast in 1930 and desires to use the stadium for the return game...