Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marines. It weighs only ten pounds, which is 100% lighter than any other weapon of similar functions. It fires 100 shots per minute and is valued for spraying death into a city street or narrow mountain defile. U. S. gangsters as well as police admire and use Thompson submachine guns. They are fired from the hip or from a rest on boulder, windowsill or automobile tonneau...
...that he had decided, overnight, to exempt kerosene from the tax, which, however, will still bear on gasoline. Well pleased at the flurry caused by his announcement, Mr. Churchill added: "His Majesty's Government have no fear that motorists will evade the tax on gasoline by attempting to use kerosene. They would do more harm to their engines than to the Exchequer...
...vigorously astir with discussion of the significance of the Afghan visitation. Since the Russian proletariat has been taught to hate and despise "kings" and "emperors," His Majesty was ambiguously referred to in the press, by order of the Soviet censor, as a "Padisha." Curiously enough, however, the verbal use of "Majesty" was not barred, because research had established that the late Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, whose every act and word has become a sanctified example, once addressed to the "Padisha of Afghanistan" a letter which began, "Your Majesty...
...smart set of Des Moines (pop. 148,900), biggest city in Iowa, often amuse themselves with a parlor game: a modern variation of famed tiddledywinks. An ashtray is placed on the floor. The players (any number from two to eight), equipped with dimes and quarters, squat. In turn, they use their quarters to try to flick their dimes into the ashtray in a graceful arc. It is a game requiring firm thumbs, keen eyes. It was invented by that skillful player, John Cowles, 29, who is to Des Moines what a dynamo is to a powerhouse...
...Yale players were unable to ship their ponies to Boston, and so will use mounts borrowed from the University squad and from private owners. Last week the Blue team showed its strength by downing Princeton 5 to 4 in a hard-fought contest. Today's tilt will not decide the supremacy of Harvard or Yale, as a return encounter will be played at New Haven on June...