Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole situation has been built up on the assumption that there is nothing illegitimate in the use of war as an instrument of national policy, and as a necessary corollary that position and the rights of neutrals are entirely independent of the circumstances of any war which may be in progress...
...York Rangers. Foreseeing that the new rules would use up his men faster than the old, Coach Lester Patrick drilled three alternate forward lines instead of two. Formidable, the Rangers beat the fast Canadiens 8 to 3 last week...
...agreement with his U. S. rivals. Closely did this follow rumors that German Bosch had been buying stock in U. S. Bosch. Terms of the plan (which will last 49 years) are that in the U. S., its dependencies, Canada. Mexico and Cuba, American Bosch Magneto Co. can use on all its products the magic name Bosch and the German interests must use the full title, Robert Bosch, while in other parts of the world the German's will use Bosch, and the U. S. company American Bosch...
...legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended at the last session of the State Legislature. Fundamentalists who resented the use of the word "Baptist" in describing Preacher Fosdick's church, Modernists who felt the same way for different reasons, irreverents who have called the new church "Socony" in deference to Mr. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., all took notice...
...Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...