Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since your new color-picture policy, I note no lack of "newsworthiness" in your weekly subjects so I should like to ask if a new improved color process has made for speedier use of color plates...
...prevent production." Labor, he said, was not liable for damages caused by a strike itself, even if an "employer may have to quit business"; but Labor was responsible for damages inflicted by "violent and other unlawful conduct." This liability was not confined to physical damage but included the use of "unlawful means" to prevent a company "from conducting its business...
Because German bakers use 800,000,000 eggs a year in making their rich pastries, the Nazi Government was delighted to find a substitute by which it hopes to save 400,000,000 eggs a year. Out of 32 pounds of cheap fish is made a pound of extract which is supposed to be an adequate substitute for 160 hens' eggs. To make this extract palatable to Germans who had more than a bellyful of Ersatz (substitutes) during the War, and have been fed up with it again as a result of Nazi isolation policies, the Government hit upon...
Thus let any Senior keep an open mind and use his best critical judgment in deciding the worth of the job he can have so easily as compared with available alternatives...
James Laughlin is not alone in his quest for the purging of our language. At the end of his selection of the last year's best books, Clifton Fadiman made a plea to young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins...