Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workman refuses to belong to the cellule "he is quietly told to get out, and if he refuses to get out then things begin to happen to him. His tools disappear or break in his hands or the machine on which he is working blows up, or things fall on him, and in a general way his life is made unbearable. Consequently the men join the cellules for the sake of peace and quietness and to be allowed to get on with their jobs and draw their wages. And when the people above declare a strike- contrary perhaps...
...some 20,000 licensed optometrists. Of these less than 200 belong to the exclusive Academy, founded in 1919 by ten men. Election is by invitation and replacements are now made only when members die. The Academy prides itself on a membership more interested in science than in moneymaking. To be considered at all, a candidate must show two pieces of original research. At the Academy's convention last week, Optometrist Laurence P. Folsom of South Royalton, Vt., advised his colleagues that "the way to make money from the practice of optometry is to forget money." Dr. Folsom, who reads...
...polo is the pony's, and a good string, properly equipped, costs $25,000-all but some 500 play a variety of polo which compares to what was going on on Long Island last week as one-o'-cat compares to the World Series. Poloists who belong to clubs which belong to the U. S. Polo Association receive handicaps of from zero to ten goals in ratio to their ability. To enter the Open, a team's four members must have a total handicap of 21 goals or better. In the whole world, only that minute corner...
...bobbed up with a Hussein among the extremists. Interviewed by the New York Times he said: "Between Arabs and Jews a life-&-death struggle is raging, which will not cease before one of the parties has been completely crushed. . . . There is no 'antiSemitism' in Palestine. We ourselves belong to the Semitic race. We turn against the Jews not because they are Jews but because they threaten our existence. Our resistance would be just as strong if the invaders were French, German or Scandinavian...
Only banks, wholesalers and manufacturers belong to the Association, retail credit being a wide field unto itself. NACM facilitates the pooling of credit information. Every bank, every company that extends credit is constantly prying into the private affairs of its customers. They study balance sheets, earnings statements, profit & loss accounts, weigh character, reputation, personal habits. But the final element in credit is "ledger experience," the record of how bills were paid in the past. Local credit associations collect ledger experience from their members, pass it on to a national clearing house in the National Association. Between...