Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes on: "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were at school, I used to have to do all her homework for her." All quite impossible. "I used to have to do" puts my teeth on edge. Neither "dumb" nor "homework" are in my vocabulary. Gertrude was a brighter pupil than I was, and more often "honorably promoted," that is, without the obligation of final examinations. We did no homework and the word was not in use with us. We studied our lessons in school study hours. If Author Putnam had known better the ways...
...Finer Things. The cops wondered, at first, whether Alice would really use her .38. She settled that in 1927 when she surprised a 14-year-old boy stripping a car. When he tried to run away, she dropped him with a slug in the right thigh. In 1934, detailed to hunt purse-snatchers, she winged her second thief with one shot. A month later, she shot another thief...
...Chimpomat," which would demonstrate the learning capacity of chimps by automatically rewarding them for tricks well done. Another idea is for a great new reptile house for Lincoln Park. In it, he would like to have the best snake collection in the world. Then, he would like to use his old reptile house to present a complete natural history of animals. Says he: "Everything in the animal kingdom stems from water, and if you could show the relation between animals step by step, it would be wonderfully educational. Just think-you start out with microscopic life, go on with...
...forced by Russia to stay out. If western and central Europe recovered more rapidly, eastern Europeans would not thank Russia for blocking their recovery. It would be years before Russia, recovering very slowly (see FOREIGN NEWS), could help her satellites. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam had found a way to use his checkbook where it would do the most good...
...latest blow struck in the name of the sanctity of the American way of life, the House Veterans Affairs Committee recently approved a rider which will prohibit the use of any GI Bill educational funds to Communists, Communist sympathizers, or anyone whose allegiance is to a nation "subservient" to Russia. If this should become law, no longer might American colleges be burdened with government-financed veterans who are subversive in the eyes of Parnell Thomas and other defenders of the democratic tradition...