Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed clearer than ever last week that there is no use guessing what Harry Truman can or will do. Post-election predictions that the President would purge Cabinet members who had failed to fight for him in the campaign had proved so far about as accurate as the election forecasts...
Arms in Manchuria. The Chinese Reds had fought a thoughtful war against Japan. They avoided direct battle, conserved their strength to use against Chiang. When the Russians opened the door of Manchuria to them after V-J day, they had a renewable arsenal...
...starting lineup, averaging an even six feet, will be Bill Hickey and Jerry Murphy at forwards, John Stevenson at center, and Bill Borah and Alden Davis at guards. Coach Lloyd Harper intends, however, to use all of his 12-man traveling squad, because, as he said yesterday, "The boys are not in too good shape yet, since we've had only one week of hard practice. I want to give each boy a chance to show what...
Since the Army cut its draft quotas this week, individual boards would probably use the proposals and not draft most college students...
...always been a source of primitive pleasure to many American writers who never came within smelling distance of the Charles. But in this case the journalistic sneerers have poked deeper than the ribs. They have suggested that Harvard and much of the country no longer know how to use the English language...