Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, the citizens of Cambridge have a right to protest over what happened. There were other disturbances at the ceremonies--the barrage of giant crackers at the elevens hour for example--which cannot be explained away. Allowances can be made for wholesome high spirits and all that sort of thing. But no allowances are possible for such treading on the solemn emotions and the ideals of other people...
...collective farms now spread unchallenged over 99.1% of the country's cultivated land. They hold 93% of all the peasants. Insofar as socialization of the land means giant State fan and collectives, agriculture is socialized for the first time in history. The wooden plows and peasant strips-the crazy, antiquated setup by which a household cultivated a piece of "near" land close to the hut and a piece of "far" land distant from the village-are finished. Startling are the simple figures of mechanization-collective farmers operate 474,500 tractors, 150,000 combines, 170,000 motor trucks. They include...
...Ponderous U. S. Steel Corp. first disregarded the buzzing and biting of the mosquitoes, denied it was doing anything at all, finally "reaffirmed" present prices for the third quarter, in fact cutting them $3 a ton by extending previous "quantity deductions" to all small lots sold. This left the giant of the industry $8 a ton above its lowest competitor, but it asserted its intention of meeting each cut till its small bedevilers reformed or bled to death. Price cuts that bring increased orders are good business according to the philosophy which Henry Ford made famous and Edsel Ford...
...here as everywhere there is a dilemma and a compromise required. An unmitigated policy of giant-killing produces a topheavy teaching structure: luxuriant foliage at top, but no roots to feed and support. A continuous effort to garner big names means neglect of the large body of instructors who provide most of the teaching. The non-exceptional student suffers by having less and poorer guidance at his disposal...
...Biggest working telescope is Mt. Wilson's 100-incher in California. This will drop to second place and the McDonald instrument to third when Caltech gets its 200-inch giant into action, perhaps next year...