Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S reports of German "pogroms" have a sickeningly familiar ring. The atrocities of "the bully boys" certainly cannot compare in sheer brutality with the torture murders of Negroes in the fine old South and the collection of souvenirs of human skin by degenerate spectators...
President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance said: "We have nothing against Colonel Harrington personally. He is a fine gentleman. But ... he represents the Army type of mind which does not, in our opinion, embody the qualifications necessary to administer a civilian undertaking involving so many social and labor relations...
Excavator Sachen also carried the big news to Mercy Hospital. But the doctors, not so receptive as the reporters, pooh-poohed the Kickapoo, sent Sachen home to his digging. Vermifuges are fine for dogs, they said, but the drugs they contain will not cure anemia and epilepsy. They doubted that Mylon had swallowed the marbles, or if he had, that they had remained in his stomach for five years. Small, hard objects are usually passed off within a day or two, explained patient Dr. Donnelly, as she ordered another bottle of slow, safe iron compound for still anemic Mylon...
...Oriental influence on the coast instead of the European.'' As President of the San Francisco Art Association, he staged, from 1934 to 1937, the hugest. most exotic super-de Mille costume balls in San Francisco's history. For the Federal Building, however, he produced a fine, occidental job of economy, stateliness and rational planning...
That kindness consisted of permission, granted the day payment was due, for Jews to pay in kind as well as cash the fine levied on them because of the murder of a German diplomat in Paris. Stocks, bonds, mining royalties, real estate were accepted at their value as of November 30 because Nazis feared the effects if Jews dumped their holdings on the market. Some Jews were temporarily released from concentration camps so they could pay up, but it was rumored the payment of the first quarter of the $400,000,000 fine was inadequate and the assessment...