Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morris (TIME, June 18, page 4) is much exercised over the use of "frat" by "high schools and prep schools...
Probably that chap who exclaimed against the use of ''Onward Christian Soldiers" as a campaign hymn thought the Jews would refuse to march to it; aren't folks silly...
...makes it necessary for her to earn a living. In a day when the life insurance business is more and more considered as a profession by those who have been rendered its services, I feel that TIME owes Mrs. Bennett, as well as Mr. Colvin, an apology for the use of the word "peddle...
...stand for him! That's worse!" cried Bolter Owen. "I am an American citizen and not a coward. I'll be damned if I'll stand for the Tammanyizing of the Government of the United States!" Nominee Smith took the news calmly. Bolter Owen used to have, and might again have, a large following. "Naturally, I am sorry," said Nominee Smith. ... "... My greatest regret comes from one of the reasons advanced, because it compels me to question his sincerity. In 1924 . . . Senator Owen called to see me at the Manhattan Club and asked me to use...
Jose R. Capablanca, onetime world chsss champion, left by the Mauretania, predicted gloomily that in 15 years the game of chess will be exhausted, every combination of moves will be known even to amateurs. But he has a plan. Use a larger board, two additional pieces, four players. Mme. Halide Edib, Oriental feminist, sergeant in the Turkish army, once sentenced to death by a Sultan, arrived on the Aquitania, to address the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics. No Sultan-10ver, Mme. Halide divulged secrets of the Turkish harems, permitted herself a social slur: "The better class of Turks never practiced...