Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years there won't be a sandbox on any course. Everyone will use wooden tees. One company gave away 3,000,000 of these pegs before the idea caught on," said a statistician last week...
...theme is simple, incredibly simple, even when put into academic formulae (which he does not use...
...children listened. "Alice," he said, "was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' " Mr. Dodgson told them how Alice had followed the white rabbit down a hole in the ground and how she had fallen for a long way until she landed on a heap of sticks and dry leaves...
Though Author Gribble was said to have supervised the direction of the present production, many faults could be found in the manner of its production. The leading members of the cast sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...
...expense of F. J. La Fleur, captain of the Princeton team, the Crimson captain, F. R. G. Chevalier '29, winner of the individual championship last year, won on the first board, by the use of a strong offensive. Chevalier scored after 36 moves...