Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among scores of rotting and deserted New England summer palaces whose owners have decided that taxes and the servant problem were too much for them, one in the Massachusetts hills has achieved a final use which places it in a position unique on this continent. "Tanglewood," the Berkshire estate where Nathaniel Hawthorne reputedly wrote several of his major works, has become the summer home of more than four hundred music students from all over the world, who combine a summer of study under topnotch instructors with the chance to hear a baker's dozen of concerts by the Boston Symphony...
Last week Bangkok police ambushed five armed robbers and stripped them of their lethal weapons: two revolvers, one automatic pistol, five long, double-edged knives, three bundles of rope and a dozen lemons. The last item represents a new twist in Bangkok banditry. Armed robbers use the lemons to gag wealthy victims in daylight housebreaks...
...Cape Breton we just dig a hole in the coal face, put in the powder, and the coal is blown out for us. All we have to do is shovel it. Out there you have to use a jackhammer to pry the coal off the face, and even after that you have to dig the rocks out. That kind of mining isn't easy...
...long time, the criminal career of Millard F. Wright puzzled the police. Because he seemed to have an uncontrollable urge to steal things, Wright has spent 15 of his 38 years in jail. Often he has stolen things he could neither use nor sell. The last time the cops caught him, after a series of Pittsburgh burglaries, they found his apartment full of hoarded, unused loot, including 40 suits, assorted jewelry, several alarm clocks and radios...
...Pretend?" All mortal sins must be confessed, but confession of minor offenses (like wife-nagging) is optional. Father Wilson says that there is no use worrying about long forgotten sins: "If [the Lord] does not recall the sin to your mind, He has no one to blame but Himself...