Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crosley agencies, where they can be rolled in at most front doors, displayed on sales floors among radios and refrigerators. Markets which Crosley dealers will go for hardest: the man who cannot afford a new higher-priced car; the family with one standard car which could use a second for shopping, commuting, taking the children to school. But, as Willys has found, the market for cars that can be built to sell new below $600 is strictly limited, is always subject to invasion by cheaper models of the watchful Big Three...
...streamlining into wings and fuselages, it develops 2,400 h.p., weighs less than a pound per horse power.† Its constant-speed propeller, largest ever built in the U. S., is geared to revolve at lower speed than the engine (because propellers lose efficiency at high speeds). Probable use of the new powerplant: to propel bombers faster than bombers have ever been driven before...
These two facts do not fully account for the tightness of the squeeze. Figures for raw silk consumption in Japan show about a 20% increase which has been attributed to the fact that Japan has restricted cotton (and partially restricted wool and rayon) to army use only. But Japanese production of finished silk goods has declined, suggesting that Japanese: 1) may be hoarding silk as a hedge against inflation, or 2) deliberately creating a shortage in order to boost prices and make a killing before new synthetic silks start to compete in the U. S. market...
Plato once said that the excellence or beauty of every structure is relative to the use for which the artist has intended it. In other words, an object must have a use before it can be considered beautiful and the greater degree of utility it has, the more beautiful it is. But art is only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill...
...Harvard Crimson and, as the system is conducted there, found to be a definite evil. With a request to other Harvard publications to refuse tutoring school advertisements the Cambridge daily formally declared war on the system in general. . . . Not content with discreet announcements, high pressure advertising is brought into use (but the tutoring schools) inferring that he who studies is a sucker and which includes a cocktail party for freshmen. . . . Having as an example the mild form of the system as it exists here and at New Haven the editorial board feels that these conditions could and should be eliminated...