Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while (TIME, Nov. 21). That remark having been meant figuratively, even humorously, its maker felt he was receiving jack-knives under false pretenses and so stated. The knives soon ceased to arrive. Their place in the Executive mailbag was taken by letters from small boys who could easily use any extra jack-knives any one had lying around...
Hull Hooks. Outstanding among safety devices suggested for future use on U. S. submarines were hooks or rings, welded into the hull, to which lifting chains could be fastened. German submarines have such accessories. U.S. submarines used to have them but, according to the Navy Department, they were abandoned when U. S. submarines were built too big to be lifted...
...when Secretary Davis telegraphed potent mine operators in the strike area, begging them to to use his office as a meeting room to reach an agreement with Labor, most of of them declined. Potent operators have organized their mines with non-union labor since last spring. Wages are where they (the operators) want them. Such operators congratulate themselves on having "broken Labor's stranglehold on the industry...
...Representatives and H. Thomas Knight, another anti-Johnston agitator, summoned their colleagues to secret conclave in the Huckins Hotel. In pajamas, night-shirts, bathrobes and galluses, without chairs enought to go around,† the sleepy statesmen preferred charges against Governor Johnston, including incompetency, conspiracy to defraud, improper appointments, illegal use of state funds. They also framed charges to impeach Chief Justice Frederick P. Branson of the State Supreme Court, author of the decision declaring them a nonlegal gathering...
...causes no inconvenience when a person looks at distant objects. When he looks at close objects for long periods he forces his eyes to twist towards each other and so strains their muscles. Then he has myopia; then he is nearsighted. To prevent the affliction, Dr. Wiseman recommended the use of prism glasses...