Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from 25?) per hour; the maximum workweek reduction from 44 hours...
What kind of concession could Germany make that would save Allied face? Best bet seemed to be a pint-sized "ethnographic" Polish State around Warsaw. Herr Hitler spoke mistily of further central European ethnographic shifts. An "autonomous" Polish State could always be rigged in favor of the Nazis to save them face. But if the Allied negotiator held out for an autonomous CzechoSlovakia, and there was much talk in the House of Commons about that, the negotiations would probably not get very...
...fatuous twenties and the frightened thirties, to flare up again now. Now at a level of greater tension, increased violence and destructiveness and more universal suffering, we are back to something very like 1914, and the decisive question before our species is whether this time it will set its face resolutely towards that drastic remoulding of ideas and relationships, that world revolution, which it has shirked for a quarter of a century...
...first movie, two years ago, was "Live, Love, and Learn," made with Benchley, Robert Montgomery, and Rosalind Russell. "Benchley fell flat on his face and lay there dead drunk when he first came in, and when I entered, my trousers fell down and Montgomery drenched me with a bucket of water," recalled Woolley...
When a team of individuals loses five of its most promising members through injuries, the outlook cannot possibly be good. This is the situation that Skip Stahley's Freshman eleven finds itself in as it prepares to face a powerful Worcester Academy this Saturday on the schoolboys' gridiron...