Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the Social Security Board jumped into the fray, announcing that the Republican statements are "nearly all misleading. . . . Every worker eligible-and it is estimated that 26,000,000 will be eligible at the outset-will receive a monthly return benefit . . . larger than he could purchase from any private insurance company with the taxes he will have paid the Government. These monthly benefits will range from $10 to $85 a month. If a worker dies before reaching age 65 a lump sum payment is made to his family. This lump sum will amount to 3½% of the total wages...
...swords of the Montagues and the Capulets are out and there are slashes and recoveries, thrusts and parries, blows--when Benvolio leaps into the midst to stop the fray. Tybalt is upon him. The Vagabond shudders and runs from the scene...
...tests infallible. After satisfying A. S. T. M. specification for strength and flexibility, galvanized annealed steel wires were used for a suspension bridge over Mt. Hope Bay between Bristol and Ports mouth, R. I. Before the bridge was completed the cables inexplicably began to fray. The bridge was dismantled and rebuilt with galvanized cold-drawn steel wires. After yanking and bending in every which way the wires which failed, W.H. Swanger and G. F. Wohlgemuth of the U. S. Bureau of Standards learned that something had happened on the bridge which no tester had ever thought of reproducing...
...Sting No. 4. After the Emperor had given Geneva to understand for several days that he would not plead Ethiopia's cause himself before the Assembly, abruptly at the last moment the King of Kings announced that he was entering the fray in person, will "fight to the last gasp of breath...
...unbearable to thing that victory should be snatched away by such a minor tribulation when the rank and file are ready and eager to step into the fray. Lack of leadership cannot be brooked, especially when there are thousands in the party coffers just waiting to be spent for some worthwhile cause, such as college propaganda and the dissemination of useful knowledge among the undergraduates of America. Perhaps a flying squad could be rushed to Cambridge from New York in order to organize and lead some semblance of form and purpose to this potentially worthwhile group; publicity could be issued...