Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they wanted him to build a hospital or a swimming pool. For all he knew they wanted him to build a fly, locust and grasshopper hatchery. John M. Davis was damned if he'd give them a nickel but he couldn't figure out what to use it for, himself...
...borders, who claim descent from Israel . . . something like, I should think, between 20 to 30 million people." Said tired Assembly President Dr. Oswaldo Aranha at last: "I am sure the eminent jurist who is the Indian representative knows what I mean when I refer to flatus vocis, which scholars use when they want to refer to people who are talking too much about nothing...
...James Cummings, usually sympathetic to Labor, dourly commented: "It was of the utmost importance that such a measure should be thoroughly debated, clause by clause, and that it should be made to stand the test of every sort of criticism. . . . Instead of that, the Government, by the wholesale use of the guillotine apparatus, turned Parliament into a gigantic sausage machine. ... It made nonsense of the vital and historic functions of the House of Commons. . . . One can see that it has given the Tories a stronger argument for their case that Labor means to reduce the status of the House...
...Valera: "I did not use that word...
Cori's most important work throws light on the mysterious action of insulin. A shot of insulin allows a diabetic to use up sugar as a normal person does. But if insulin is added to sugar in a test tube, nothing happens. Why? Apparently the body furnishes other substances to effect the reaction. Dr. Cori has found some of these substances and has learned how they work. But he wants no one (not even the eager Sugar Research Foundation) to get the idea that he knows the whole story of sugar. If he did, he could answer a question...