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Word: usefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smoking in dying out at Yale. Only fourteen per cent of the freshmen use the weed. - Columbia Spectator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT and RUMOUR | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

...survey courses, and in spite of the availability of advanced courses to selected freshmen, the choice is often made haphazardly. The possibilities of a miss are too great, necessitating subsequent readjustments and consequent failure to capitalize fully on the benefits of the tutorial system. A solution lies in the use of freshman tutorial as a means of helping students to distinguish their aptitudes, and hence of guiding them into the proper fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDISCOVERED GOLD | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

Coach Bill Neufeld, adding comments on the Varsity squad, told of the need of tracksters in the somewhat weak events as the hammer-throw, broad-jump, pole-vault and the sprints. Discus and javelin were also mentioned as being able to use several...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Track Needs Many Men To Fill Team's Weaker Posts | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

Apparently intended chiefly as Actor Powell's parole from musical pictures, Hard to Get contains only two songs, for elaborate orchestration substitutes a use of acrophobia unsurpassed since Harold Lloyd's Safety Last. Good sequence: Arthur Housman, ablest rival to Robert Benchley in the cinematic portrayal of amiable intoxication, trying to stand up in a crowded subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...bitter hatred which chain-store efficiency breeds in competitive wholesalers and independents. This efficiency rests upon two prime pegs - ability to buy in huge quantities and elimination of numerous wholesale and other middleman functions which add markups to food costs. Such benefits can be obtained by independents through use of supermarkets or of voluntary chains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Colorado No | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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