Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fear that some readers may have missed the delicate subtlety of "that extended little finger." People who say "was graduated" are like those who pronounce the "i" in parliament and the "t" in often. As a matter of fact the dictionaries allow either the transitive or the intransitive use of the verb, but the stately OXFORD says of "was graduated": "now rare except...
...your May 19 issue you say: "Eugene DuBois . . . got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911. . . . He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first ... to use the calorimeter . . . on human subjects...
...Reader Robbins is right; TIME should have said "first to use the calorimeter on human patients"-i.e., sick and ailing...
Moment of Decision. As he passed the 2,000-ft. mark with his engines turning at full take-off power, he faced one of a pilot's most critical decisions. Should he use the rest of the runway in trying to get off? Or should he obey the classic flying rule that it is safer to plough through a fence on the ground than to push through, a bad takeoff...
Dean Sperry made use of the text as a remedy for man's current troubles, pointing out that "our too self-conscious and self-centered life needs the wholesome correction of a less introspective mind...