Word: use
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop Hitler from selling his"). Of the long-range political and economic complexities, little is heard. There is in the United States a superabundance of capital ready willing, and able to be invested. There is in south and Central America ample opportunity to put this money to valuable use, for it has been estimated that in undeveloped raw materials alone, this area is--not excluding Siberia--the richest in the world. Benefits from the potential investment would accrue to both halves of the American continent. But the risks to private capital arising from unstable political equilibrium and the record...
...Darned is the word the ladies use-or once used-for damned. Don't say darned in pseudo-blasphemy or in poetry, or in regard to mending the socks...
...injection device which sprays fuel into engine cylinders to replace carburetors from which vaporized fuel is sucked by the engine. With injection, engine builders can use less volatile fuels, soon to be commercially available, cut down fire hazard...
...seem to be persnickety, but. . . .' " He stopped short. Two Negro delegates-one of them Florida Educator Mary McLeod Bethune-started for the platform to demand an explanation. Blushing, Dr. Estes seized a microphone, said: "Coming from the Deep South as I do, perhaps I am prone to use such words without realizing that they may give affront. I will say to the Conference: when there is a marriage and the first misunderstanding arises, what happens? We make up, of course. I say now, let's make...
...degree, it should be exterminated. If the tutoring is by Wolff, let the diploma be by Wolff, but not by Harvard. It is further undesirable because it destroys initiative and the will to honest toil; because it makes students lazily dependent upon a crutch they would not otherwise use...