Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More than any one else I am in a position to appreciate the tragedy of Japan's aggression against China, for I know China was on the high road to great progress when hostilities broke out. My special part in building up of the nation was to assist my husband in creating a New Life movement and to help reorganize the air force...
...glass humor in the U. S., Willet has very serious theories on window designing, which he regards as nearer to music than painting. He prefers the 12th Century masters who used large pieces of glass in the primary colors, simply juxtaposed, rather than designers of the 13th Century, who broke up their glowing blues and reds in complex patterns at the risk of purplish vibrations of light. "Purple addles your brain," Henry Willet says...
...fearful sea raged all day, making it impossible to launch a boat. Yet without one chance of surviving, nine men launched a life-raft. A huge wave broke the line and knocked two overboard. After dark another line was made fast to the fore-rigging, and by means of a breeches buoy the two remaining men, more dead than alive, were landed. One was the mate, who told the people that he had seen his wife and little boy drown when a wave broke into the cabin...
...never again be sole head of the House of Labor. Certainly John L. Lewis, daily rallying new members about him, is very far from beaten. Curiously, it is a matter of almost equal certainty that William Green is also far from being beaten. Although about 1,000,000 workers broke away to form C.I.O., although A. F. of L. organizers have made little headway compared to John L. Lewis' go-getting staff, the strength of A. F. of L. has not been seriously shaken. Today John L. Lewis has political power in his own name, but William Green...
...acrid, "like the smell of foul water in a sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were soggy and black with putrescence, rank-smelling...