Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that an unannounced benefactor has offered three horses for polo purposes, the management has been unable to accept the gift because of the lack of necessary funds to feed and groom the animals. The result is that, with the meager $1200 subsidy of polo, the team can never use its own horses in games away from home. This fact is made even more annoying because there are no contests scheduled in Cambridge this spring since there is no playing field...
...could tell a capital story and enjoy a well-cooked dish. But his ordinary fare was meagre in the extreme. For one of his heartier meals he would cut a piece of meat into bits and roast it on a spit, as Homer's people roasted theirs. "Why not use a gridiron?" I once asked, "It is not the same," he said, "The juice then runs into the fire. But when I turn my spit it bastes itself...
...little benzine. A most important external use of alcohol by the U. S. motorist, however, is found in alcohol anti-freeze mixtures. U. S. radiators absorb anti-freeze alcohol at the rate of 40 million gallons per year...
Another element of the recently completed program is the tendency towards non-decision debates. No winner was declared in half of the debates Harvard entered this year. This policy is to be in use even more next year. Certainly the position of debating can only be lessened when the interest and incentive of competition is removed...
...form in the prehistoric civilizations of India, of Egypt, and of Sumeria. Chemical laboratories as an instrument of teaching and training are a relatively modern institution. Strangely enough the first person, so far as we know, to have appreciated their value for this purpose and to have advocated their use was a President of Harvard College...