Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plumbing. Acheson leaned back, spoke over his clasped hands like a high-school teacher lecturing a class in civics. "To me, the essential thing about it is that it is the use of material means to a nonmaterial end." That end was not the installation of modern plumbing in every home, nor profit for U.S. imperialism. "It is not that material objects in and of themselves make a better or fuller life, but they are the means by which people can obtain freedom, not only freedom from the pressure of those other human beings who would restrict their freedom...
...right to use injunctions against labor, except possibly, in cases of jurisdictional strikes...
...Register is late because all the pictures are taken after the freshmen have arrived in Cambridge. The solution to the problem of lateness is obviously to use the photographs submitted by each student with his application for admission. This is the practice at Wellesley College, where a picture directory of freshmen appears early each fall in time to be useful in orientation weeks...
Atomic energy has been produced in sizable quantities ever since 1942, but so far, not a single kilowatt has been put to practical, peacetime use. The Atomic Energy Commission, smarting from criticism, decided last summer to set up a special "Reactor Development Division" to start the reactors reacting...
...into the Old Testament or the Talmud, and some reliable husbands for his sprouting daughters. "The Lord," he sarcastically remarked, "wanted to be good to Tevye, so He blessed him with seven female children ... all of them good-looking and charming . . . like young pine trees." But what was the use of such a blessing if he couldn't raise their dowries...