Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of project-at once heartwarming, over-organized and unabashedly flamboyant-that Americans dote on. The townspeople of New Brunswick, NJ. had set out to build a home for 23-year-old ex-Marine Robert William Hoelzle, who lost the use of his legs when he was hit by a Japanese bullet on Okinawa. It was just like an old-fashioned house-raising bee, except that it took place in the age of the assembly line and the publicity...
...greatest achievements was to teach Puerto Ricans the true value of the ballot. Against the then-common practice of vote-selling, Muñoz used an argument compounded of pity and scorn: "If you want to sell your vote for $2, all right. I don't blame you. I know $2 is worth something. But if you don't sell your vote, you can use it to get justice for your family. So remember: justice or $2. But you can't have both...
Cinemactor Clifton Webb was one refugee from Broadway (Sunny, 1925, The Little Show, 1929) who was finding life in Hollywood exactly to his taste (see CINEMA). Being a star again, he confided to an interviewer, was "fun, a lot of fun, and I love it. There's no use pretending I'm a modest fellow . . . Some day I shall write a song called I Fascinate...
...Mayo doctors cautiously said that it was too early to use even the word treatment "except in an investigative sense." Some doctors thought that Compound E, even though it did not cure, might be used, like insulin for diabetes, to control the disease. Others feared that it could not be used for long without upsetting the body's whole glandular system. The argument would not be settled for a long time. Meanwhile, Mayo doctors warned that Compound E is very scarce, hard to produce, and may not be available generally until...
...first three doubles pairs of Ager and Bullard, Ames and Hughes, and Robb and Dave Key will probably be playing this afternoon. In the past three matches the score was so high in favor of the Crimson that Barnaby was able to use some of his younger men in the late doubles, but against Cornell such an op-doubles, but against Cornell such an opportunity will probably not present itself...