Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the family at the Murray Bay lunch table to say of Tom Shevlin, "H« had himself paged in hotels by a boy waving an envelope like it was a telegram." He denied it and my father sided with him, saying that no Taft could ever use "like" as a conjunction. I feel certain therefore that he was misquoted...
...California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural resource before Arizona herself is ready to use...
Judge Payne, the various revolutionary commanders have seized for their own military use entirely too much of the food and money sent to China by the Red Cross and other charities. Therefore it has seemed best to let the thousands of culpable Chinese revolutionary soldiers-and incidentally the millions of innocent Chinese citizens-starve...
...what a great land our ancestors have handed down to us and we who are their descendants have not made use of our inheritance. The wars of the Occident are all for the possession of just those minerals which we have in such abundance but which, for lack of communications and development, we leave buried in the ground...
...able to use a typewriter...