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Word: usefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must add that in the absence of a cucumber chaser one may very advantageously use the Lencoran Caviar sandwiched in the Georgian Lavash. Gentlemen, believe me, this is delicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...unanimous conviction of the committee that the function of the school is to teach children how to think, not what to think. It is not right to indoctrinate the minds of young people with either one side or the other of controversial questions. It is not right to use in the schools material which seeks to advertise or bring profit to any agency in the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Indoctrination of Youth | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Secretary of Commerce & Labor under Roosevelt, friend of the late Hunter Carl E. Akeley, will sail on Jan. 19 for Africa, push up the river Nile, into the Livingstone Mountains, in quest of birds, beasts and vegetation for the American Museum of Natural History. No gun-toter, she will use the camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...made the most of last week's threat of epidemic. To the newspapers they went with their cleverly evasive advertisements to allure the flu-fearful. Such an advertisement was that for Japanese Oil (EN-AR-CO), which under the arousing headline FLU EPIDEMIC described the oil's use for head colds, sore throats, chest colds. Perhaps even more persuasive were advertisements for Turpo, Nozol, Harrison's Heart O'Orange, Calotabs, Mu-Sol-Dent, Bulgarian Herb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flu Fear | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...East 4391, they slam down indignant receivers and call the New York (Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Savannah) telephone system the worst in the world. Of course they really know that the U.S. telephone system is the best in the world. And if they have tried to use South American telephones, they realize the shocking extent of their exaggeration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Behn Design | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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