That said, as a believer in the importance of the humanities, I do have to appreciate Freddie's appreciation for the uses of historians.
Early in the book, in describing a "very dubious-looking" building, he writes: "It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the uses of the public; so, entering the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash-box in the porch.
Where once the letters that were dumped in the tray marked Gasbag contained smart-ass one-liners, demands for album tokens, obscene ideas for the uses of Max Bell, or diatribes against Smith, Springsteen or Salewicz, now the tone has changed.
Reading the "By the Book" interview with Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard (May 27), I was surprised by her response to the question "What is the best book you've read about academia?" Her praise for "The Uses of the University" (1963), by Clark Kerr, is stunningly misdirected.
For the uses of Skolem functions and related ideas in linguistics – notably the so-called choice functions – see e.g. Reinhart (1997), von Heusinger (2004), Steedman (2012).
In this study, an inexpensive commercial melamine sponge was chemically modified for the uses of oil spills treatment by oil/water separation.
