Word: used
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...servants do most of the labor, Mrs. Bijur sometimes helps (see cut). To protest the banking department's failure to rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined an A. F. of L. union. She said "the scabs" had called her bad names, she had even been told she might have her "puss mashed in with a sledge hammer." Recently she paid hospital bills...
...from New York City to Miami (1,460 nautical miles). Each year some 2,500 boats from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and surrounding States motor down through the network of rivers, streams and canals (there is still 50 miles of open sea). Like touring autoists, waterway tourists use road maps (Government charts), obey traffic signals (buoys). They treat sailing vessels as autoists treat pedestrians, park at anchorages instead of garages. Diehard water-gypsies, 100,000 strong, never get off their boats, live on them all year round...
...James Bible. Today, scholars have their doubts about the authenticity of the word "Jehovah." Last week, Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther Allan Weigle announced that "Lord" would be substituted for "Jehovah" throughout the Standard Bible, added: "Jehovah is not a functioning religious term. People don't use it; they don't think of praying to Jehovah...
...Your Wings, in simple, first-person, instructor-to-student dialogue, Jordanoff told how to fly, prudently prefacing the course with lectures on the history of flying, aerodynamics and how to use a parachute. Through 27 chapters he guided the student off the ground, through rudimentary flight, and back to earth again; told him about motors, propellers, wing lift, etc. ; took off with him again for turns, climbs, glides, later for stalls and spins and aerobatics; sent him soloing; proceeding thence through discussions of "avigation," instruments, fuels, radio, accessories...
There are other explanations-that Prohibition gave coffee drinking a big boost, that high-pressure advertising plus cheap retail prices has put it over, that the nervous national tempo leads to excessive use of all stimulants. But it also may be that when depression nips an average man's buying power, he finds a 5? cup of coffee a sort of emotional ersatz for more expensive things...