Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of July 29, p. 29, in a note, you refer to the "contribution and refund" system in vogue at certain race tracks, whereby bettors get "prize" for around the the horse law by they hope (bet) "contributing" will to a win, and add: The same system is in use on tracks in Xenia, Toledo and Cincinnati...
Some few weeks ago we noticed an article in the New York Sun using the word NEWSCASTING. This appealed to us as a most appropriate expression, so that we were led to refer to our 10-Minute Radio News Service talks on Mexico under that term. We have since learned that you created that word in referring to the broadcasting of news and desire to congratulate you on your originality. We would be pleased to know if you have any objection to our use of the expression in so describing our radio news service...
...however, wished to keep him a child, continually worried about Wolf's getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here was one with whom he could laugh, play, tumble, tease, poetize, and only once was there anything between Suzanne and him like what Ewald, jealous, was bold enough to insinuate. Wolf was a fighter, too: he promptly challenged Ewald but parents suppressed their pistol-duel, whereupon...
...Bristol-Myers addition put several more famed names in the Drug, Inc. family album. There is Sal Hepatica which clears the system promptly. There are Gastrogen Tablets, which relieve in digestion with none of the embarrassments of gas and rumbling. There is Ipana, the tooth paste you should use if you have Pink Tooth Brush. And, by a recent merger, there is Ingram 's, the cool shaving cream. Bristol-Myers showed a 1928 net income of $1,483,159 or with Ingram...
...first to use picture books in teaching children was Johann Amos Comenius, famed educator of the 17th Century, a radical in an age of musty pedantry. Last week in the Church ot Xarden. Holland, was found a skeleton believed...