Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great deal of time and patience. The habits of an important section of a congested part of the country cannot be changed overnight or in years. The reform and the adaptation of society to that at which the amendment aims must be gradual. The temptation of corruption will drag...
...looks. The women, naturally, do not get along at all well with each other; Max is first bored, then driven to despair. The weather is depressing; their landlord-neighbor turns out to fee a terrible fellow; Max is deplorably cheated in a horse-trade whose postmortems drag on for months. Finally he moves them all to Algeria, where he has foolishly taken a three-year lease on a house in an isolated oasis. He thinks his troubles are over when a beautiful American girl, an admirer of his books, writes and asks him to marry her; but when she arrives...
Villages do not follow towns to Communism. Towns must drag villages to Communism...
...fundamental ones of them known in the universe. By definition man has taken as standards the atomic weight of oxygen, the length of a meter, the weight of a cubic centimeter of water, and four other items. From observation he has figured very closely the velocity of light, the drag of gravity, absolute zero (459.4 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit) and six others. By deduction there are seven derived constants, like the mass of the hydrogen atom, or of the electron. Then there are six experimental constants, and four conventional...