Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does. According to the booklet, the most important problem in the young thing's life will be "How to Set Up Housekeeping at Vassar," and is thus the subject of Chapter 1. Warning the freshman that when she first arrives "the room looks BARE," it counsels that she "use one doorknob for support and think ahead to the close of the first few weeks when your room will assume its own personality, look homelike, and be the place in which you will live...
...intention to respect the decisions of the U.S. district court, and to give his full cooperation in carrying out his responsibilities in respect to these decisions . . . I am sure it is the desire of the Governor not only to observe the supreme law of the land but to use the influence of his office in orderly progress of the plans which are already the subject of the order of the court." Governor Faubus' statement had the sound of retreat: "The people of Little Rock are law-abiding, and I know that they expect to obey valid court orders...
...your cover artist purposely use the tennis ball as a symbol of Yang and Yin? Yang and Yin represent the Chinese conception of two opposite forces that create the universe. For example; day and night, right and wrong, black and white...
...musical comedies, even prizefights. But the 3,000-seat house, with its huge maintenance costs, did not pay its way, and last week it seemed as though Impresario Hammerstein's prediction would at last come true. Sold by the Shuberts, the Boston Opera would be stripped for probable use as a parking lot or storage warehouse...
CREDIT SELLING will be tried next year for first time by J. C. Penney Co., biggest U.S. chain of junior department stores (1956 sales: $1.3 billion) and last major holdout for cash-on-the-barrelhead. It will try installment plan in several stores, use Penney credit in all 1,690 stores if test lures more customers and brings in more money than it costs...