Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...use Eire [TIME, Jan. 31 et seq.] instead of Ireland as the heading in the Foreign News Department? Or has the Emerald Isle been rechristened...
...Anson, with a maximum speed of 188, and the Blackburn Shark, with a maximum of 152. Two hundred North American BT-9B type, low-winged, single-motored monoplanes with a top speed of 171 miles an hour, were ordered from the North American Aviation plant at Inglewood, Calif., for use as advanced training ships...
...mountain folk of Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas still follow customs and use much of the lingo of their early colonial ancestors. Though many of them are illiterate, they have handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, ballads and hymns that can be traced to Elizabethan England. Still popular among them are such hoary items as Sir Patrick Spens, Barbara Allen, Robin Hood and Little John...
...will be well to take another look at the case of the homeless three hundred. To them, the most important privilege which the associate membership plan would grant is the use of the House dining balls. Eating about the Square week after week, fruitlessly searching for variety in meals, frequently eating alone--these are perhaps the worst consequences of a refused application. President Conant has frequently referred to the value of education gained at the dinner table; three hundred men are now without this education. Moreover, extra-curricular activity is increasingly becoming centered about the seven Houses, and the closed...
...Roosevelt, from a long-dead queen to a live President is probably the record biographical jump. But Emil Ludwig's two latest biographies offer similarities. They are Biographer Ludwig's two weakest books; their subjects, credited with almost equal charm, have aroused almost equal controversy about the use to which they put their charm...