Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home workers, two sisters and their mother, are paid 80? a gross to make "frogs" for men's pajamas. Their combined weekly income...
...piece worker gets 12 ? per gross, makes $4 per week. Her daily expenses: carfare, 20?; lunch, 25?; nursery care for her children, 20?-total, 65?. Her profits for a full week's work...
...write English correctly, and with a proper regard for its extraordinary beauties," Mencken said. "If I were the editor of a daily newspaper I would certainly insist that even the sports pages be written for better than they are. I sometimes marvel that Americans are so insensitive to the gross abuse of their mother tongue. Certainly such a magazine as Time, if it were printed in England, would be denounced violently for its apparently deliberate degradation of the language...
Count Charles was attacked in the Chamber because his Minister of Interior, Vicomte Prosper Poullet, had certified the election returns from small Hastiere near Namur. "In that election," shouted an Opposition Deputy, "there were gross irregularities. Shame on Poullet! Shame...
...make rules, and adds the comforting information that "the will to win is still a prized heritage handed down from generation to generation of American life." The excellence of these sentiments comes abruptly to an end in the last paragraph, when the editor casually observes that it would be gross negligence on the part of the Director of Athletics and the Committee to tolerate an attitude of indifference to the physical preparations of athletic contests. That such a conclusion is not only equivocal but entirely unsatisfactory may be seen from the fact that no explanation is made why members...