Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to enter a protest against your use of dashes in your Letters columns when you delete profanity. I approve the deletions, but I see no good reason why you should pique the curiosity of your occasionally profane readers by having all dashes of equal length...
...suggest that in future you use single, double, triple and so on dashes according to the number of letters in the words deleted. Thus if one of your correspondents referred to some person as a - - - - -- it would offend no one, and at the same time members of the Ancient & Honorable Order of Occasional Swearers could figure it out and rest assured that the writer is a brother and not some rank outsider in Russian, Chinese or Sanskrit...
...years? With many of them this life is a terrible struggle for existence. A revision of the banking laws as suggested would doubtless be beneficial and in addition to this what we need is a heavy inheritance tax on large fortunes, say 95% on all over a million dollars, use this money to make public improvements and to pay the National debt and to pay the Soldiers' Pensions...
...rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
...manufacturers use many imported raw materials. Raise the duty on these and the U. S. price rises accordingly. Soft drink producers are concerned at the prospect of added duties on sugar...