Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trudging patiently out into the fields to plant another cotton crop. For if there was anything the U. S. apparently did not need, that thing was more cotton. Hanging over the market was an enormous carryover of 13,000,000 bales, twice as much as the U. S. would use in a busy year. The major part of this hoard-11,250,000 bales, 5,625,000,000 pounds-lies in warehouses in the South, assigned to the Government for "loans" in hock to the U. S. taxpayer, who is paying $123,000 a day to keep...
...illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother's name, and not until he was 40 years old did he get permission from the authorities to use his patronymic (which he transmuted to Hitler). Had that permission not been granted, Nazis would last week have raised their arms to the speaker at Wilhelmshaven and cried not "Heil Hitler!'' but "Heil Schicklgruber...
...brilliant engineer who pioneered the structural use of iron, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, born in Dijon in 1832, had built daring bridges in France, Portugal, Bolivia, Indo-China and Hungary, but the Tower which bears his name was always his favorite baby. In its top he made his home and laboratory for aerodynamic experiments until his retirement in 1921: his longevity (he died at the age of 91) he ascribed to the fine air he breathed in his lofty nest...
...adult should use specific words. For example, twice as many children wound a swimming toy correctly when a teacher said "Wind it backwards" as when she said "Wind it this...
...Imperial's present printed instruction: "Lap straps. . . . Use is optional. . . . Company recommends that they shall be used . . . during take-offs and alighting. . . . If you wish to use . . . ask the Flight Clerk...