Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not "pour money down a rat hole." There is never any use in pledging financial outlays abroad until we are satisfied that it is not a mere hold-up game or a last minute rescue party, and until we are sure that fundamental steps have actually been taken which will change the situation permanently for the better. No nation-and certainly not the United States-is rich enough to be strong everywhere at once. No nation is rich enough ever to splurge money recklessly. There is a limit; we must pick the place where we can properly influence...
...leave the world," he charged, "I have one wish in my heart. I have no sons. But my brother's sons are as my own. Please watch them as they grow up and make full use of their talents...
...ever heard his shamelessly sentimental braying of Tin Pan Alley ballads would believe it, but to hear Al Jolson tell it, he still has stage fright. Said he: "I die every time I go on the stage. . . . What's the use of falling on my face?" He didn't have to. At 61, Mammy-Man Jolson was in the chips. Two years ago he was sick, and though not broke, afraid that he soon might be. He had developed an abscessed lung while entertaining troops overseas, and ended up in a Los Angeles hospital. When he recovered, Hollywood...
Beside the members of his husky flock, pint-sized (5 ft. 2½ in.), bookish Pastor Burger looks even smaller than he is. But he has a voice that can outshout any of them, and he knows how to use a picka-roon to nudge the four-foot "blocks" from their great stacks into the river, and how to help sluice them through the dams with a pike pole. "Wish I had a soft job," the men sometimes yell at him when he comes by in his red and black checked jacket; but they laugh when they...
...This is a funny business. It takes us three weeks to build it, they use it for three hours, and we tear it down in three days...