Word: useful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bankers must submit their handiwork to statesmen of the Great Powers and small Belgium at a Second Hague Conference, expected to convene within six weeks. Last week, however, the Baden-Baden bankers did what they could to make their signatures imposing. They had no Great Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty...
Preventive Work. The U. S. society and the Red Cross are trying to reduce the world's incidence of blindness by preventive work-by educating mothers and communities to the use of silver nitrate on every newborn's eyes, by getting children's eye clinics established, by teaching teachers to recognize impaired vision, by trying to eradicate trachoma, by preventing accidents and eye strain in industries...
...undersigned Christian women, protest use of those advertisements which show use of tobacco in any way by women and girls and children. These advertisements have been on display too long. No one can tell what harm has been done...
...rate, Harvard's new "swimmery" will be ready for use in March, long before the specified date. The entire plant will be completed in June, according to present estimates...
...provide such valuable opportunities. Much greater lessons have been learned and taught on the gridiron than on the court. Nevertheless, the individual game is stressed just as much, if not more, than the team game because the former provides the student with a type of exercise he can use after graduation...