Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this advice which the Dictator rejected when he decided to wipe out the kulaks, crack down on private traders, and industrialize at super speed. It was made more like a confession by Bukharin's describing it in court last week as "the platform for the restoration of Capitalism, as we visualized it"-whereas neither Editor Bukharin nor his readers in 1929 visualized it as anything but a slower, perhaps better way to "build Socialism...
...excitement this raised among Congressmen, only too eager to get on eating and dickering terms with their British masters, was stilled by Saint Gandhi in his own way. He announced that he no longer pays his Congress dues, is no longer a Congressman, thus can sip boiled milk and crack walnuts with whomever he likes...
...christened it "Iceolite" but has refused to name its ingredients, except to say there are 16, of which one is a vegetable oil and one a silicate. Last month a small, 600-sq. ft. rink in Toledo's Civic Auditorium was paved with the stuff and several crack skaters performed...
Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to hibernate, been washed down & down by seeping water to the extraordinary depth at which they were found...
...cogent reasons for surprising his dealers: 1) About a third of Iron Fireman dealers sell oil burners as well as stokers, and he would like them to have a complete line of Iron Fireman equipment; 2) The rest of his dealers want a crack at the new construction market, for most contractors still put oil burners in their new houses; 3) Mr. Banfield thinks that making an oil burner may turn out to be a clever way of getting oil burner dealers to carry stokers; 4) In case all attempts to patch up the languishing coal industry fail...