Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crisis came when Elizabeth Christman. secretary-treasurer of National Women's Trade Union League, arose with a resolution to revamp the Federation's traditional but awkward and archaic structure. She proposed a committee of seven "to map out general plans and policies for strengthening the united action of the regular craft unions, and at the same time for extending organization into those industries in which the present form of organization has obviously not been successful." The committee report on Miss Christman's resolution was likely to be epochal for the Federation...
...Gotham mayoralty race, demonstrated in the Albany caucus that Dr. O'Brien can be not only a joke but a joker. For he has Secretary Farley's vote on a resolution pledging unanimous support to regular and trademarked candidates of the Democratic Party. Although the perplexed secretary made awkward efforts to rule out the resolution, he was doomed to failure, for in a party caucus such a resolution is a conventional thing, and cannot be ruled out with any degree of urbanity. This makes his position as the godfather, through Roosevelt, of the candidacy of Joseph V. McKee...
...does, and extremely well, just what the supporting cast in a play like "Goodbye Again" should do; it appears at the proper times and with the proper attitude to become the victims of the egotism of Mr. Perkins, and the suavity of his mistress and secretary, Miss Baxter. An awkward situation develops and is saved through the brilliance of Miss Baxter; and it is delivious to observe the triumph of evil pleasantry over calm, resolution, because the calm resolution gives way to consternation, and the evil pleasantry retains its philosophic, if not obvious, calm...
...hands do equal amounts of work while typing and 2) to prevent fingers interfering with one another. For example, by study of 35 million digraphs (two-letter combinations) in English words, Professor Dvorak & aides found that 10½ million must be stroked on the standard "Universal" Keyboard† by awkward linger reaches and hurdles. Difficult important combinations on the standard keyboard are, in order of frequency, E C and C E. S E and E S, E T and T E, N O and 0 N. The present keyboard, Professor Dvorak discovered, has many one-handed words which make...
...Author, a rangy, 39-year-old Pomeranian farmer, may well be surprised at the fuss he has stirred up. So would his neighbors be if they knew that Farmer Dietzen (his real name) was "Hans Fallada." A lawyer's son, Author Dietzen spent an awkward and unhappy childhood in Berlin and Leipzig but has never felt easy in urban surroundings. Failure as a farm executive, clerk, bookkeeper, estate agent, provision-dealer, potato grower, he failed also with his first two books. Then he married, settled down in Holstein, then Berlin, with his wife and child, and made enough money...