Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard for me to conceive of any method of diffusing knowledge that would more exactly meet the purpose our first President had in mind. ... I am sure the heads of the Government departments will not fail to make good use of it ... to correct the kind of misinformation that is sometimes given currency for one reason or another. In some communities it is the unhappy fact that only through the radio is it possible to overtake loudly proclaimed untruths or greatly exaggerated half-truths...
...business may cackle the loudest, but much of the egg money will be collected by the makers of dry cell batteries. Each portable radio requires one volt-and-a-half "A" battery (price: 50? to $1) and two 45-volt "B" batteries (price $1.50 each). "B" batteries in average use have a life of 250 to 300 hours, but the smaller "A" batteries may have to be renewed after 100 hours of use. The average portable's running cost thus is approximately 1½? per hour, about three times that of operating a plug-in set on house current...
...business brought to it by the 200,000 portables in use has been scarcely a drop in the battery industry's 3,000,000-set bucket, but battery men, like set makers, have high and springy hopes...
...were never a general. You cannot even use a rifle...
Like MGM's previous productions in England, A Yank at Oxford and The Citadel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips makes economical use of local actors, notably 300 students of Repton School who acted as extras during their vacation. Besides Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips employs only two performers who are likely to mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term...