Word: exhaustingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overdressed with colored lights, to attract attention, a wind tee points to the West. There comes the wind! As we rush to meet it, the long yellow exhaust flame shortened and turned blue...
...vote?'' Fleet Street: This week London presses roar with the flat prediction of Viscount Rothermere that morganatic marriage of the Sovereign will be made possible by the Mother of Parliaments and if necessary also by the daughter Parliaments of the Dominions. Yet London editors go sleepless, reporters exhaust themselves and the Cabinet is reported split three ways within itself as King Edward at his snuggery maintains a highly mobile position, ready for instant action. Not only articles of abdication but an entire sheaf of other solutions, drafted in legal form by the King's personal Attorney General...
...among other things, a munificent endowment, fine technical facilities, a House plan comprising fine buildings, weird combination of Gothic and Georgian though they be, an increasing enrollment of celebrated scholars and teachers, as well as a Law School with few peers. Although these improvements do not by any means exhaust the list, the most striking fact about such a representative collection is that they are all of relatively recent date...
...their securities had a market value of not more than $30,000,000 and that they did not even claim a total investment of more than $53,000,000. Although the bond interest would not be as great as lease payments, the Mayor nevertheless thought that interest payments would exhaust operating profits. "You will be left," he told the employe-stockholders, "with scraps of paper." At that the audience cheered...
...Russia in 1935, except that one of Communism's great talking points has always been against Capitalism's technique of "the speed-up." As usually described by Communists, the Capitalist bosses incite crack workers to exceed normal production, get the whole shop working faster to keep up, exhaust and exploit their workers. Throughout Russia proletarians sensed that the disguised State Capitalism of Dictator Stalin, which has already forced piecework upon Russians, is now bent upon the speed-up disguised as "Stakhanovism...