Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound movie may be produced to teach students how to use Lamont, Metcalf revealed, adding that the English A tours of Widener are "not too effective...
...city in Massachusetts or one in the rest of the U.S. in which the conditions of housing are not essentially worse than those, at which the Shattuck report * directed severe criticism." In Washington, D.C., he added, 100,000 people draw their drinking water from hydrants in the yard and use outdoor privies. There are almost 6,000 communities in the U.S. with no public water system, more than 9,000 without sewerage systems; in 8,300 communities, where some 70 million people live, there are no modern facilities for collecting and getting rid of garbage...
Director Robert Wise has avoided much of the flavor of hokum by handling his gunplay as if it were something really necessary, rather than a Fourth of July display. His actors use horses because they seem to want to get somewhere; they come out of brawls looking mussed. Even Walter Brennan, a master of easy tearjerking, plays this one fairly straight...
...tackle, considered Ferd Nadherns one of the best line-splitters he has seen all season, as did most of the other varsity players . . . quarterback Bill Henry denied that sending O'Donnell over from the two for the second touchdown was a sentimental gesture . . . "When you're that close, you use the best play you have and the best ball carrier available...
...plotters system for firing the blast was simple. One of them, stationed behind the grandstand, was assigned to set off the charge by use of batteries. He was to be signalled by two accomplices, who were stationed in the wooden bleachers...