Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lead and carbon monoxide are the most prevalent forms of poison. The latter is found in garages of course, and also in steel mills and coal mines. It is, in fact, found wherever gas is used. Unfortunately there are new poisons appearing all the time, but there is no governmental agency to investigate them. If a manufacturer wants to find out the quality of a rubber solvent, he can write to the Bureau of Standards; if he wants to find out the effects the solvent will have on his workmen, however, he is at a complete loss. Consequently he starts...
...probable that very few men who use the telephone company service realize the large number of college men who go into the various activities of telephone work every year, or of the definite campaign that has been developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and its associated Companies...
...predicament faced by the Harvard Summer School of being unable to extend the hospitality of the Colonial Club to members of its faculty next summer, has been met by an offer from the Hasty Pudding Club of the use of their club house...
...same time the Comptroller has made arrangements for the use of Grays Hall by visiting professors who are teaching in the Summer School...
Even the conservative Saturday Evening Post has acquired this new attitude. Its March 2 issue (3,050,000 copies, to be read by perhaps 15,000,000 U. S. men, women and children) contained a veiled rebuke for female failure to use contraceptives. The rebuke consisted of a cartoon by Donald McKee, captioned "Why the March Hare Was Mad." It depicted a buck hare hopping furiously beside a huge bed on whose three pillows lay an abashed, puzzled doe hare with nine newborn.* Harold the buck hare: "Again? What's the idea? Did you never hear of Birth Control...