Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their flesh tones had faded, but they still shone with immaculate drawing, clean, jewel-like color, and a fine use of lace and ornament to produce a sharp, flat pattern...
...first, everything was fine. Marshall Field's Sun was out to wear down Bertie McCormick's monolithic Tribune. Always happy to stick an irritating finger in McCormick's glacial eye, the late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds. He played footie with McCormick; and as a landlord saw no reason to charge the Sun less than the traffic would bear. Last year he tripled...
...able, deceptively benign-looking publisher named Richard James Finnegan. The Times has been profitable, which is more than the Sun can say. The Sun will lose its sour-faced executive editor, E. Z. ("Dimmy") Dimitman, whom Field imported from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dimmy never did have much use for his boss's earnest crusades, and he has less use for tabs. His successor (with the title of managing editor): James Mulroy, who as a Daily News police reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for cracking the Loeb-Leopold murder case...
...library doubled in size every 20 years. Today, as "trustee for the learned world" (as it likes to call itself), Harvard's library spends more money a year on the upkeep of valuable but out-of-the-way bequests than it does on books that its undergraduates use. For the searching scholar it houses shelves full of irreplaceable documents on the Italian Risorgimento, Congo dialects, cooking and the privately printed pornographies of Mark Twain. Some of its treasures haven't been consulted by any one for half a century. Some others come in handy: during World...
First-grade texts, he says, use about 2,500 words. The figure was arrived at by counting the words one set of children used over a two-week period. But, argued Seashore, a kid uses words as the occasion demands. Had he gone to the zoo during that two-week period, he would have thrown in what he knew about animals. If he looked at a picture magazine or listened to a radio serial during that time, he might have used words that would not otherwise occur to him. The modern kid uses a lot of words picked up from...