Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning the auto was gone again and there was a smile on the face of Officer Shamus Finnegan. "If they're going to be that way about parking," groaned Bottle, "I shan't bother to pick it up until I have occasion to use...
Well, it isn't black magic any more. It seems that football still depends on the 22 guys on the field at any one time. It seems that you have to grab the ball to use it; you have to control it to score; you have to score...
There are many reasons why Harvard showed a complete reversal of form from the Columbia game. Some of them can be pinned down like the difference between not being scouted last week and being scouted thoroughly this week, or Cornell's use of 20-odd defenses compared to Columbia's sticking to a single defensive formation throughout the game...
...Mass may, indeed, be "mysterious" to Protestants, but if it is "mumble-jumble and "mysterious" to Catholics they have only themselves to blame. Priests from pulpits and Sisters in classrooms have talked themselves hoarse in an effort to induce these "many Catholics" and their children to use the Mass Missal...
Laguerre's use of the American idiom to make his point is one of the special qualifications he has for his job as TIME'S chief correspondent in Paris. A quiet, bespectacled Frenchman, he also probably has as intimate a knowledge of French and Western European politics as any reporter on the continent. He picked up his knowledge of the American idiom by virtue of some years spent in San Francisco, where his father was French Consul, his unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball as a sports reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle. A fortnight ago he renewed both...