Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's idealistic school teachers. Twenty-five have been murdered so far this year. The peasants have developed a fondness for cutting off the ears of teach ers they do not care to murder. So the President's teachers all tote guns, and frequently have to use them...
...made peace with A. F. of L.'s President William Green, President Davis last week pulled a surprise out of his academic cap: an offer from Mr. Green to let the teachers' organization, which has refused to pay the special assessment for fighting C. I. O.. use the assessment for its own organizing work. The convention unanimously approved this face-saver, kept itself in good standing with both camps of Labor...
...Before sailing, Dr. Buchman announced that 45 Berkeley Square, London, a substantial house of historical interest, is being acquired by friends of the Oxford Group from many countries for use as a world center of this rapidly growing movement...
Fitted out with freshly painted oar and bright red cushions, a gondola owned by the late Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
...Soft as old linen." By 1910 it was apparent that his idea of specialization was correct; his six brands provided 80% of the total sales of $726,264.09. About that time Scott paper towels came into being as the result of a carload of paper too crunchy for toilet use. Together, the two products in 1937 gave Scott a sales volume of $13,843,542. In the first half of 1938 sales reached...