Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
...from the record, the [steel] industry has become allergic to profits. To look at its performance you would think it had anticipated those who want the profit system abolished, and for all practical purposes had established itself as the first great industry devoted to the idea of production for use...
...scraps suitable for dog food largely disappeared from the . . . dining-room table, and urban dog owners turned to commercial foods for the sustenance of their pets. ..." If owners do not feed their dogs meat, said Dr. Patton, to avoid fits they should make sure that the commercial food they use contains vitamin...
...detailed twenty-sevens page import to the Faculty, the Committee on the uses of English, headed by J. D. M. Ford, Smith Professor of French and Spanish, urges greater effort on the part of instructors to curb the use of poor English on examinations which the Committee feels in very prevalent...
...warned that if Germany and Italy try to take advantage of the confusion at present surrounding negotiations for a tribe entente to grab more territory on the "pretense of vital space," France is determined and ready to use force to preven any extension of totalitarian hedgemony...