Word: caked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demand is the raison d'être of wealth derived through the medium of Labor, it should govern Labor's attitude to employers, to strikes and to itself. In other words, to borrow Mr. Strachey's simile, if Labor wants a larger share of the cake, a larger cake must be made and a larger cake can only be made if there are enough people who want...
...Strachey's cake. (P. 13.) Waves of the same length...
What is more, the man-made products actually improve on those of Nature. They are completely free from impurities. Some seeming miracles have been accomplished under high pressure-water, though incompressible, can, under a pressure of 130,000 Ibs. to the square inch, be frozen into a cake of ice so dense that it sinks in water. Mercury can be frozen under a pressure of 170,000 Ibs. Water can be injected into rocks under the same conditions until they become soft and gelatinlike. All of these processes are at present prohibitively costly. A synthetic tombstone would cost a billion...
...anyone has been brought up so wrapped in cotton that he, like the famous dauphin, cannot see why the poor do not eat cake when they cannot get bread, he should read the stories now published daily in the New York Times about the Hundred Neediest Cases in that great city. If after reading a few of these tragedies his spirit is not humbled, then his case is hopeless...
...Americans--as private citizens--of the invitation to join in the investigation. The government would seem to have little to say about whether private citizens, if they so desire, shall serve or not. But perhaps some moral advantage may accrue from this phantom manner of having one's cake and eating...