Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked whether he would use statistical material in support of his statements, Reading replied that he did not consider statistics vital. "As a matter of fact, the available figures, while not well compiled, favor my side of the argument. The statistics compiled by the Census Department in Washington are useful, but they include all homicide," Mr. Reading continued. "A child may run in front of your car, which may have the best brakes in the world, and yet you have extinguished a life. That's not murder, yet a case of that sort would be included in the Census Department...
...Coolidge Economy" this expression has always signified to most people the fact that the present administration under the leadership of the President, has been sparing in the use of the people's money...
...emoluments from this source during these four years have been much greater than the aggregate of my salaries during seventeen years of office. This statement would have been an unwarrantable boast on my part had it not been rendered necessary by the cowardly slander privately circulated as to my use of party funds...
...Hanford: "Present educational methods are comparatively satisfactory, but they also lack much of the force which springs from methods more than satisfactory. "A small group will perhaps be carried away by their new freedom, but it is the firm belief of the faculty that the great majority will use their privileges wisely and with great profit to themselves." After midyears Harvard will revert to blackboard and lecturer. May 5 a second period, preparatory to final examinations will be dedicated to reading books...
Another significant development which he considered worth noting was: "Seventy-two railroads now use trucks to supplement regular shipping service?46 in terminal operations, 15 in the form of store delivery, and 11 to replace local freight trains. On Jan. 1, 1927 railways had more than 225 trucks operating, the route mileage being 4,226. Competing services had 43,207 trucks covering 607,029 route miles. Registration of all trucks in the U. S. was 2,764,222, compared with 2,432,017 the previous year...