Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This lad must be very Junior indeed; the sophomoric conceit fairly oozes from him. The prospect of your losing Mr. Hammond Jr.'s patronage, "unless you change your style or start a phonographic record department" must present a saddening alternative. Incidentally, our Junior's use of such verbal banalities as "quite a few," "Variety has far more than you" and so on, emphasizes the nerve of him, in assuming the role of Mentor to TIME in the matter of style...
...Passed and sent to the Senate a bill permitting the use of Federal prisoners for roadbuilding...
...figures dealing with the number of undergraduates using the library must of necessity lack complete accuracy, since no record is kept of the use of the Lower Reading Room. The very marked increase in the number of men using the Upper Reading Foom and the Call Desk, however, indicates that a proportionate increase has probably taken place in the Lower Reading Room...
...treat the offender by the scientific investigation of the mental, environmental and physical antecedents which might have led up to the anti-social act." Judge Ben Lindsey, and less interviewed magistrates, have proved such procedure practicable. And there is in the adult criminal enough mutability to make the use of human and scientific understanding in the handling of him no longer a something not to be postponed...
...recommendations of the Board of Overseers embodied, it is believed, a proposal to remedy the present limited seating capacity of the Stadium by the use of portable steel stands, which would fill in the space at the end of the Stadium which was formerly occupied by the wooden stands. These stands might be employed also at the Yale baseball game...