Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urgent war to keep Poland from falling apart. General Smigly-Rydz's main concern was not whether it was to be a world war or a local war, whether casualties were to be ten or 10,000,000. What was important was that Poland, which had so often divided, should not divide again...
...sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking in. Apart from occasional darts to the Left, dragging a red herring, and aside from plenty of cockney and dialectal comedy, which is really a "front," the British Broadcasting Corp. is essentially Gad-Sir-the-Empire Tory, and uncompromisingly for all that the Empire does not mean to Britain's underprivileged millions...
...some form of exclusive recognition to help C. I. O. finish off what was left of Homer Martin's A. F. of L.-affiliated U. A. W. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther in separate memoranda disclosed that G. M. had: consented to deal with its striking craftsmen apart from some 100,000 idle but nonstriking production workers ; granted many wage increases but not a general one; agreed to eliminate some wage differentials, narrow others. Most important to G. M. and both U. A. W.s, the C. I. O. union in effect got exclusive recognition in 42 G. M. plants...
...Soviet scientists unearthed a group of long-headed skulls, completely different from the round skulls of present-day Siberian natives. The skulls not only matched those found on the Aleutian Islands but they were dead ringers for Algonquin Indians. Not even expert anthropologists, said Dr. Hrdlicka, could tell them apart...
...Last year she stopped making mortgage payments to the building society, and when the society sued, personally fought Britain's legal heavyweights to a standstill. "Portia" Borders became the heroine of thousands of Britons who pay high rents for grimy kennels or find their shiny new houses falling apart. Many of them have been making it tough for landlords as increasing numbers of "Tenants' Defence Leagues" have demanded lower rents, better plumbing, repairs. If the owner is stubborn, he has a hard time collecting his rent...