Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim that the Metropolitan District Commission has granted the C.D.F. "exclusive use ... of the new Art Center Theatre for the next several years and possibly long thereafter." This is mere conjecture on your part. The M.D.C. has not made any long-range commitments for the Theatre's use; so why do you want to stir up trouble before any has arisen...
Criticizing the use of history to explain the compositions of great artists of the past, he said that even so great an artist as Mozart becomes artificial to present-day music lovers if he is seen only through history...
...history, the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, which keeps a reliable temperature chart of consumer attitudes, spied a shift in the public mood. In the center's latest survey, out this week, the number of consumers who think the time is ripe to buy a house or used car showed a sharp upswing, and moderate upswings showed up among those who believe it is a good time to buy major household appliances and new cars, undertake large home improvements. The survey pointed out that some part of the public must be getting used to prices once considered...
...Coast to London, Hawaii and Tokyo will be started by Pan American World Airways soon, with new 5,000-mile-range Boeing 707s. Jet time from San Francisco to London over Polar route: 11 hr. 20 min. v. 23 hr. 20 min. on prop-driven DC-7Cs now in use...
...realize their duty to themselves-and to the U.S.-to work together in eliminating a luxury that the U.S. cannot afford in a competitive world economy. Featherbedding pushes up prices, pinches productivity, penalizes the consumer and the productive worker to reward the drone. Worst of all, by discouraging the use of time-saving and production-boosting new machines, it retards U.S. economic growth. Every economist agrees that the best way to create more jobs is to make the economy grow faster...