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Word: usefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claim that she admits better material than Yale: she may even argue that her English department offers more thorough preparation for such at test. Yale would not dispute the point, because it is not worth a tinker's damn. It provides a source of raillery for Harvard undergraduates to use against their Yale friends: it probably also makes certain Harvard professors quite satisfied with their ability. But the "brain contest" does not alter the fact that each is a great University, proceeding along somwhat different lines. Each aims to produce men who will lead world thought not those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brains | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...speech of P. J. W. Bove '29 was the nucleus of the Crimson's case. Bove produced statistics to prove that the death penalty does not prevent crime, but may actually stimulate it. Brooks Otis '29, after an effective rebuttal of his opponents' use of emotional appeals, went on to popularize and stress the arguments presented first by Bove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. C. WINS DEBATE BY UNANIMOUS VOTE | 3/22/1929 | See Source »

...hard to justify Mr. Rockwell Kent's assertion that the intention of the donor has been violated in the recent award to "the advertisement most effective in the use of illustration." It is hardly credible that Mr. Bok should have sat idly by while this award has been four times made to the firm or person responsible for the advertisement rather than the painter of the picture utilized. Aside from the fact that the wording of the conditions seem to justify their present construction, the tacit assent of the donor to this arrangement should certainly be sufficient justification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANDFUL OF SILVER | 3/22/1929 | See Source »

...state that the award was given for an advertisement distinguished for its effective use of illustra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KENT DENOUNCES BOK PRIZE AWARD | 3/22/1929 | See Source »

Four new productions have already been released or are just being completed by the University Film Foundation, and bring the total of pictures ready for distribution up to 11. They are in increasing demand throughout the country: clubs use many of them, and a recent order has come in from San Diego for a large group for instruction in public schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY FILM FOUNDATION COMPLETES FOUR PRODUCTIONS | 3/22/1929 | See Source »

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