Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, using the "Language Through Pictures" method developed by I. A. Richards, University Professor, and Christine M. Gibson, research associate in Education, is designed especially for use in underdeveloped countries, where teaching man-power is limited. It can be used either as a supplement to a regular course or by itself...
...Cuban television station plans to make the first commercial use of the series next fall...
Only a few images, Capp says, can be used in this way. The figure of the Radcliffe girl, for example, will not have any significance to Capp's 60 million readers; therefore he does not use it. Whenever he uses the Harvard name in Li'l Abner--and he has done so fairly often it is always in a disrespestful way, but "the more disrespestful treatment," Capp says, the more delighted the reaction at Harvard...
Capp's most recent use of Harvard in his strip pertained to the hallowed Dogpatch tradition of Sadie Hawkins Day. It seems that thirteen new bachelors were needed to participate in the annual race, and that someone in Dogpatch who could read saw in a newspaper that Harvard was awarding 2000 bachelors' degrees. Moonbeam McSwine, one of the more picturesque local characters, was dispatched to Cambridge to recruit the necessary bachelors. She met with surprisingly little resistance...
...Another use that Capp has made of Harvard in Li'l Abner resulted in Yale's being destroyed by the sweep of a lizard's tail. Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat--two of Dogpatch's more colorful denizens--got hold of a tiny lizard that matured into a giant pre-historic monster. While this process of growth was going on, Joe and Polecat were awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates...