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Word: useful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Rear-Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. N. retired, say: "There is little or no use in having an inferior navy. You might just as well expect a lame mule to win the Kentucky Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Legion in Louisville | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Those were some of the sums appropriated by Congress for the use of the Merchant Fleet Corp., a quasi-public body instituted in Wartime to build ships to carry soldiers, food and munitions overseas. When the War ceased, the corporation had to pay its bills, to settle with shipbuilders for cancelled contracts. Then its job was to operate the ships it had built until they could be disposed of to private interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Expensive Elephants | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Professor Henderson has no elaborate system to offer, he has invented no machine to produce college graduates, he suggests nothing to basically upset present programs. Instead, he goes to the heart of the educational body--the men who teach. And when he suggests the use of the vast funds available for education directly towards raising the standard of these men he makes an appeal to all who place the everyday, human element first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN AND MACHINES | 10/10/1929 | See Source »

...United States has been explained so often as to have become a common-place. In the midst of the tremendous progress made by such branches of society as commerce and science, the law been slow in adapting itself to new conditions. The Sherman Anti-Trust laws, to use a familiar illustration, are already hopelessly antiquated to deal with modern business. By nature of its bulk and intimate connection with the past, the legal code is usually one of the last phases of society to adapt itself to changing environment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPARATIVE LAW | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Business School, is that behind the Baker Library. There is a space for the parking of automobiles behind Langdell Hall but that is reserved entirely for professors. The Baker Library parking ground provides room for upwards of 450 cars, and, Business students only are permitted to make use...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supervised Parking | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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