Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bukharin is a vine that must always cling somewhere, must be always upheld and maintained by someone sturdier than himself. . . . After Lenin's death, Bukharin became Stalin's medium. . . . I hear from friends that he is passing through a new crisis now, and that new fluids, unknown to me, are penetrating him." The "fluids" were diagnosed as those of a "Right Heresy" in Moscow last week by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. It appeared that Comrade Bukharin had dared to say that some of Dictator Stalin's policies are too radical much as Comrade Trotsky dared...
...Success" is the story of a prominent English politician, who, at middle age, finds himself shut in from the pleasures of the world by success. Suddenly he has a chance to recapture his first love, and his struggle to cling to romance, while success closes about him once more, forms the central interest of the play...
After the initial effort, which the oyster must perform unaided, General Foods Corp. can do much to aid the progress of the baby mollusc from the sea to the dinner tables of U. S. oyster-lovers. Old shells and brush, to which oysters happily cling, can be strewn upon the breeding-beds. Twice must the oysters be trans planted: first to a growing bed in deeper water, where they will not be buried under new spawn, then to a finishing school in waters rich with food. Such a fashionable spot is Cotuit, Long Island. Here, for the last six months...
...improves or declines he can be shifted to where he gets specific treatment. As for the smaller details, every three patients should have two wheel chairs at their disposal. Preferably not more than two should occupy a room. They should have hand rails in rooms, corridors and washrooms to cling...
...answer is that in early cotton spinning days, a peculiarly damp climate with chronic "bad weather" was necessary to make the cotton fibres cling properly together as they were spun into thread. All England is damp, but the atrocious weather typical of Lancashire, is positively ideal?for cotton spinning. Nurtured on this gift of Providence the mills of Lancashire have grown until they now number close to 2,000?for the most part, small, ugly mills employing a few hundred craftsfolk in each...