Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...findings, which are considered to be one of the greatest contributions to the development of the use of power vacuum tubes in recent years, are the result of ten years' work in the Harvard laboratories by Emory L. Chaffee, Gordon McKay Professor of Physics and Communication Engineering...
...Lincoln Tunnel has another usefulness. Until last week, through traffic on U. S. No. 1 had the choice of using tedious ferries, the George Washington Bridge or the Holland Tunnel. The Holland Tunnel route is not so speedy as the bridge route. It will now be even quicker to use the East Side express highway & the Lincoln Tunnel than to use the bridge & U. S. No. 1 on the Jersey side. This may take some revenue away from the Holland Tunnel and the bridge, only completed in 1931. but the Port of New York Authority runs them all. is competing...
...vaudeville performers do not get across by special pleading that they are 'pure spirits.' " One thing Mime Enters found in performers like Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. Jimmy Savo, Moran & Mack and the Fratellinis was timing raised to a high art. She raised it, in some instances, higher. Her use of castanets in a dance-pantomime called Boy Cardinal, composed in 1932, was something Bojangles or even the late great La Argentina might have envied...
...individual has 1) a "recognition," 2) a "possible" use (8% smaller than "recognition") and 3) an "actual" use vocabulary. No accurate tests have been made of the "actual use" vocabulary, but a professional writer who went through Dr. Seashore's test marking words he had used in, speech and writing claimed a working vocabulary of 40,000 basic and 40,000 derived words, a "possible use" vocabulary...
...facts on which Building America is based come from authoritative treatises and periodicals like FORTUNE. Each issue is submitted to experts on both sides of controversial questions before publication. Although every issue asks U. S. schoolchildren to think about how better use can be made of the nation's resources. Building America has thus far escaped serious attack. Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram denounced the Power issue as propaganda for public ownership of electric utilities, but that dispute wound up with Scripps-Howard's Editor George B. Parker eulogizing the magazine...