Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cove's mayor when Stanco made his report. "We'll take it up with the United Nations direct." Glen Cove's people said nothing. "They come," a candy-store proprietor told a reporter of his Russian customers, "they buy, and they go. But don't use my name or my address. With the world situation the way it is, you never can tell...
...instead of a simple distinction between premeditation and impulse, the amendment set up some more subtle definitions. It was first-degree murder if connected with robbery, burglary, rape, sex offenses, the death of a policeman or prison guard, the use of explosives. Repeated use of a slow poison, such as arsenic, would be a capital offense; but a single, lethal dose of prussic acid would be only second-degree murder...
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (the London,Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). In his first successful concert work for chorus and orchestra,* written in 1930, Stravinsky shows that he knows how to use voices as well as instruments with pungency, economy and originality. Fellow composers, in & out of Hollywood, have borrowed from it. Performance: excellent. Recording: excellent...
...Amsterdam is a great opportunity: I join you in praying God that we may use it to the full, and that through it God will help the churches to find their unity and the world its peace...
...Father White wonders whether God may not sometimes use the couch as well as the confessional to save a soul: "While man is limited to the appointed channels of grace and forgiveness, God is not so limited; and there seems to be no foregone reason why the theologian can deny to dream-symbolism the . . . efficacy he must allow to the sacraments . . . or - it may be added - the dream symbols of the Scriptures. Though little can be affirmed or denied with certainty, the resemblances are sometimes too impressive to be totally ignored...