Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company paying an equal amount. This fund is administered by an employe-company board, which pays to any employe who has been in the service of the company more than one year and who is laid off temporarily, half his weekly earnings?the total amount paid not to exceed $20 per week and not to be paid longer than ten weeks. Whether a G. E. plant has this plan or not is optional with the employes. Mr. Swope estimated that 75% of his company's 88,000 employes are now participating in the plan...
...raising its prices. "Commencing on the morning of July 4th," announced the company two weeks ago, "the price of Macmillan gasoline will be restored to 18½? at the service station. . . . We confidently expect the purchasers of Macmillan gasoline to continue purchasing our product even though the price may exceed that of other brands while the gasoline war lasts. . . . We appeal to the public to back us up in the stand we are boldly taking for the good of the oil industry and the prosperity of our state." The Macmillan expectations were not disappointed: sales fell off less than...
...timepieces. After a 288-day comparison with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (Astronomer Dyson's special charge) it was found that Big Ben's maximum deviation was only 1.4 sec. per day, that only on 21 days in the whole period of observation did the deviation exceed 1.o sec. No intricate mechanical adjustments but a mere pocketful of small change maintains the accuracy of Big Ben.* "Whenever the clock is losing slightly," explained Astronomer Royal Dyson, "we just drop a ha'penny or a penny on a tray fixed about half way down the pendulum...
...grammar; which on his recent Oriental tour led him to travel for weeks under the most primitive conditions to listen to native music unadorned; which enables him so to concentrate on his music that in his concerts he never needs a score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind. For, although Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner have stayed his first loves, he has had time and bursts of enthusiasm for Stravinsky, Schönberg. Sibelius, Skriabin. He has been willing to experiment with...
...rhetoric have obscured the fact that the fundamental issue revolves on the extermination of a class. The emphasis on material possessions as the criterion of equality or inequality has led Soviet Russia to decree the destruction of the Kulaks, or rich peasants. This class, according to instructions, must not exceed three per cent of the entire Soviet Union or, more accurately, four million peasants. With hunger and exile awaiting those who are subject to this decree, it is a vital question to determine exactly what are the specifications for "Kulakdom" as distinguished from the "middle" peasantry...