Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening in late September there was a stud-poker and high-spade game in the apartment of one James Meehan. It lasted 24 hours. Meehan did not play, but received a percentage for the use of his premises. The players were Arnold Rothstein; George McManus, brother of a Manhattan police Lieutenant, Meyer Boston, shrewd Manhattan "operator"; Edward C. ("Titanic") Thompson, Chicago plunger; "Nigger Nate" Raymond, San Francisco sport; and a few lesser figures. Raymond was the big winner and a slick-looking fellow called "Tough Willie" McCabe, onetime Chicago beer-legger, was supposed to have a half interest...
...have discovered how to control the tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins. Perhaps the most encouraging trait of humanity is the ingenuity which it exhibits in making such discoveries; and perhaps the most discouraging trait in humanity is the lack of ingenuity which it exhibits in making use of them. The young atomist, accordingly, tells the British Cabinet about his findings, and its members, absolutely unable to think of anything to do about it, offer to put him in jail...
...Club also extends the use, of its club rooms at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, to undergraduates in town for the holidays...
...assuming this position, Professor Grandgent, who has been a professor or Romance Languages for 32 years, will take the place of Dean C.H. Moore '89. Dean Moore will be on a leave of absence for the second half year, whether or not he will conduct research work or use the time for recreation...
...chewers who will chew Wrigley's Doublemint gum in 1929 will realize that the use of the word "Doublemint" is costing the Wrigley company almost $2,000,000. Back in 1911 the L. P. Larson gum company, claiming prior rights to the word "Doublemint," sued Wrigley for its use of this brand name. After a -year battle, Wrigley Gum and Larson Gum have settled the quarrel by payment of $1,900,000 to the Larson company...