Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average undergraduate plowing through the throngs in Sever or filing up and down the crowded stairs in Harvard Hall and Fogg cannot but have a vague impression that the class-room facilities of the college are being put to intensive use. But the report recently compiled by Dean Benedict and published in this morning's CRIMSON presents a truly startling array of figures. The fact that the rooms available for the use of the class meetings, apart from those set aside for special uses in the various laboratories and museums, are used up to nearly 100 percent capacity during...
...international debts, American foreign trade expansion, international tariff, and the need of a world-wide system of currency. Such a proposition lends impetus to the already popular theory of solving world problems through the medium of economics in that it proposes to educate many young men to make practical use of the theories of international business...
Julius Rosenwald, 66, philanthropist and board-chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail order house), sat, hour after hour and day after day last week, in the divorce court of Judge Joseph Sabath in Chicago. An observer, not a divorce-seeker, was Mr. Rosenwald. As to how he would use his observations, he said: "I have nothing definite I can give out now. If you were a mind-reader you would know what the plans...
...organization with correspondents in all chief U. S. cities to collect and write news items suitable for radio broadcasting, with a nationwide clientele of radio stations (one in each city and two or more in the larger centres), with 20 wavelengths in the short-wave spectrum for its own use, with a network of teletypewriter lines so that its stories would be automatically transmitted ready for use in broadcasting rooms, and with an arrangement for selling radio broadcasting for the stations on a 15 per cent commission-such was the organization visualized last week when a National Radio Press Association...
...these motors use gasoline for fuel. It must be a high-grade gasoline. And it is expensive. A cheaper fuel, such as fuel oil, is desirable. So research has been going on. Diesel engines burn fuel oil. But Diesel engines are ponderous. Packard's triumph is that its engineers have designed a light-weight Diesel-type motor that burns cheap fuel oil efficiently, and is air-cooled. Although it is a radial, its invention gives promise of an "in-line" air-cooled successor...