Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Album's troubles began two weeks ago, when the University declined to release to the publication's business staff a list of purveyors. Having in its possession a slightly out-of-date listing this particular Album might be able to publish an emaciated version without the use of new purveyor lists, but Album editors of future years will face extinction almost certainly unless some source of revenue is found beyond that of subscriptions. The University has apparently had two feelings on the subject of purveyor lists; economic and ethical. It was felt, first, that money spent by purveyors on Album...
...investigation has its own merits from the point of view of the Republicans. For the magic name of Roosevelt is involved. FDR's administration will in time become a rosy myth, and the name Roosevelt will in time be envoked by aspiring Democrats with the same reverence that Republicans use in referring to Lincoln. By attempting to discredit the late President through his son, Brewster's probe may have the effect of delaying the day when the Roosevelt myth becomes an effective political weapon. That, and little more...
...catch in it is that Dr. Seashore is talking about what he calls "recognition vocabulary"; being able to use all the words, and use them exactly, is something else again...
...Congress also whacked $500,000 off a $710,000 appropriation for sugar rationing, causing the Department of Agriculture this week to end rationing of industrial use of sugar...
...third time to get her. She spent 40 weeks working on two scripts; both have now been shelved. Says she: "I'll never do it again. The movies are no good for me. What I hate most is the misuse of the medium, and there's no use putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance of the people who make movies. They create in perfect cynicism what they think will sell . . . . I have no word to say of what I think of their [the movies'] evil...