Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole number investigated, were still working ten hours or more a day. Of these 16,610 worked twelve hours, 5,320 worked eleven hours, the rest worked ten hours. The seven-day week held in thrall 66,712 steelmen, or 26.9% of the total number. These figures, abrupt and impersonal, called up before the churchmen visions of a race still living with hardly any leisure save sleep, spending lives in a dark servitude scarcely more desirable than actual slavery. To the more aggressive divines it seemed that a mightier offensive than ever was necessary...
...Corps, to become director of aviation for Shell Petroleum Corp. On leave of absence from the Army, Doolittle lately completed a 7,200-mi. roundtrip flight for the city of New York, making a research tour of airports throughout the land. His entry into commercial flying is not abrupt. For ten years has Flyer Doolittle been a 1st Lieutenant, total pay-$4,800 per year. Service with Shell Petroleum will more than triple that income...
Informal investigation has revealed that this dismissal came as part of a definite program of revision of Widener cleaning methods and was merely made more abrupt by the demands of the State Board that Harvard meet the usual scale of office scrubbers. Since the working conditions in Widener are alleged to be superior to those usual in metropolitan office buildings, the University did not feel called upon to meet this scale and met the demands of the board in somewhat startling manner of enclosing an honorable discharge with the salary checks of the women involved. Eleven women were laid...
...accordance with the original plan for changing the cleaning of the library which the demands of the board made more abrupt, a corps of men has succeeded to the vacant positions...
...Asked an abrupt reporter: "What about Mussolini saying that Fascism had trampled several times on the prostrate form of Democracy, and would do so again...