Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, Seelye argues for an employment agency for retired professors willing and able to continue teaching. Smaller colleges, Seelye suggests, could use these academic castoffs at less than full salary on light teaching or research schedules...
...does the Church of England make so few recruits? The main answer is surely fairly simple. People are more interested in problems that we used to call religious than ever before, but the reason why they don't go to church is that they don't and can't believe what is taught there. Once people believed that they were going to heaven or hell in the same sense that they would get to Manchester if they started from Euston and to Brighton if they went from Victoria. Nothing can revive that belief. Once they believed that...
...effects of this strategy would be widespread. FTC says that there are 191,907 companies which use basing points. As industry's bellwether, Big Steel had set a pattern which thousands would follow. As a result, U.S. consumers might soon have to pay more for a whole lot of things -for furniture, oil, machinery, paper and hundreds of other items...
...Saud of the Arabian desert's "neutral zone," where Independent's oil concession lies. State also passed the word that Independent was its chosen instrument for the "neutral zone" oil lands. And Arabian American Oil Co., in neighboring Saudi Arabia, was ready to let Independent use the projected 1,100-mile pipeline to the Mediterranean...
Finally, last month, the American Society for Testing Materials (6,300 members representing producers, sellers, users) recommended a new name - estron - for the acetate fabric. FTC said nothing doing. Fed up, Tennessee Eastman Corp., No. 2 in the industry, last week announced that it would use the word estron anyway-and FTC could go to court about...