Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people is less acid than the blood of normal people is well-known. A proper balance between hydrogen (acid) ions and hydroxyl (alkaline) ions is essential to health and normal cell growth. Too much alkalinity lets cells grow wild. That is one reason why radium and x-rays are used to treat cancer. They make blood acidulous. If doctors could easily and quickly tell the blood's hydrogen ion strength, they could use proper therapeutic means to prevent and treat cancer...
...general, the National Horse Show proceeded much as it has in other years. Horsewomen dragged their acquaintances into boxes and compelled them to use constantly whatever odd phrases they knew connected with horses, as "hocks," "hind-quarters," "withers" or "whiffle-tree." Astonishingly pretty girls rode enormous, savage hunters around the tanbark enclosure and judges, in silk hats, permitted blue ribbons to be pinned to the dark, nervous faces of exactly 160 superbly tall and graceful winners...
...Situation. Businessmen in general are cagey about new ideas. Twenty-five years ago they squinted dubiously at advertising. Advertising men pugnaciously proved their utility. Now he is a stupid salesman who does not use advertising. To teach a similar lesson scientists are using similar utilitarian appeals. Rarely does a researcher give a talk without a lateral exposition on how useful to business his discovery can be made...
Chevrolet passed Ford when Model A was being prepared. Ford repassed Chevrolet late last summer. Now, Ford is making 6,000 cars a day. 1929 will be a telling year. Henry Ford will stand by his four and use his low price ($385 to $625) as his most potent weapon. Chevrolet will use arithmetic-six is more than four-"Bigger and Better...
...masculine names for female writers were once conventional necessities, they are now both unnecessary and undeceptive. They add, however, to what is known as feminine mystery, and for this reason women use them whenever possible. One woman, in fact, has no fewer than three aliases which she uses on various occasions, though always for the same reason. She is Mrs. Lily Moresby Beck, who writes fictional biography as E. Barrington; oriental philosophy as L. Adams Beck; and magazine articles as L . Moresby. Herewith reviews of two of her books and of some by other women...