Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Lawyer Sharpe happily during a recess: "That's perfectly legal. It was pulled on me, 25 years ago, and I've been waiting to use it ever since." And it was legal-under the law in Georgia (and many other states), any juror can testify...
...traveled all day from a village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being "enemies of democracy." He refused. He was told that if he remained intransigent, he would be imprisoned. When he finally told his wife, she came to Berlin to learn...
...first step in describing silence," says California-born Composer John Cage, "is to use silence itself. Matter of fact, I thought of composing a piece like that. It would be very beautiful, and I would offer it to Muzak...
...that, he ought to be able to keep his paper. Whether he wants it for future reference, or for sentiment's sake, or for no special reason at all, he has more use for it than the particular Department involved, which can do nothing more valuable with it than donate it to an old-paper drive...
...time pressure inherent in the examination system causes a good bit of the poor writing, but at least some of it is due to carelessness. Authors of flagrant examples of careless writing--grotesque grammar, bizarre vocabulary, murky syntax-- should be reported without compunction to the Faculty Committee on the Use of English by Students. The Committee exists in order to take care of just such people. In the past it has received so little business that you would think all Harvard examinations were written by Addison and Steele. But since many of them read more as though they were written...