Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet grain collectors empowered to cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches at clandestine sales. Vexed peasants long ago tried "passive resistance," refused to sow more than enough grain for their personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph Stalin is outsmarting the peasants with a policy called "Confiscation & Collectivization." Last week he celebrated "Collectivization Day" while mujiks glowered and grumbled. When a peasant does not sow and reap on all his land it may be confiscated by the Government, proclaimed...
...always gentle. As in rural farm cooperatives "dues" were levied upon all members. According to the city health authorities, Treasurer Fay's collections ran up to $800,000 per year. Yet he complained: "All I get out of this racket is $500 a week. It is not enough for all this worry. Besides it might affect my credit in my other lines of business." Indicted with Fay were 140 members of his Association, all unproductive city men who had learned too easily the principle which government is trying to teach their productive country cousins...
...stage show is commonplace, aside from the antics of Herschel Heniere. His performance; at the piano and as a one-man orchestra is good enough to counter act the series of mediocre dances that precede...
...regard to the time of starting of football games no doubt had a laudable purpose in view; but their concern for the academic and digestive well-being of students rather overshot its mark and struck with acute discomfort at the other end. The shades of dusk form pretty enough material for the sentimental moments in hard, slashing football stories, but for the spectators, they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players at Harvard was for the benefit...
...unquestionably situations like this, and they aren't at all infrequent in the game today, that make football the most popular sport in America today. Any one who was lucky enough to be in the Brighton bowl last Saturday certainly won't deny that it deserves that position of honor and they will all be back this Saturday by way of verifying it. BY TIME...