Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break this rural habit Dictator Stalin forced the peasants into "collective farms" which the State supplied with tractors. It was thought that with a State-appointed Communist in charge of each farm the peasants would produce, produce, produce. For a time they did. But this year the State's failure to ship sufficient goods to the mechanized collectives is producing a new and most ominous "collective strike...
...Voice, Taxi, The Hatchet Man, Play Girl. Appealing modulation of voice and manner, decorous softness of demeanor are Cinemactress Young's chief characteristics on the screen; she attributed them in part to her schooling in a Los Angeles convent. The fluffiness of her brown mop she attributes to her habit of shampooing it with cleaning fluid...
...outdone by the railroads, Scottish bus companies began uniforming their conductors in kilts and blazers embroidered with the companies' initials. Chided the Manchester Guardian: "From blazers it is an easy step to ties-and from busses it will be strange if the house-tie habit does not extend until stevedores write letters to the newspapers complaining against the cads who wear ties for which they never carried coal-sacks...
...consideration. Young Chang, inheritor of his father's great domain, had neither the force nor the ability to handle it. The best intentioned young man in the world, he is temperamentally unfitted to be a soldier and, despite painful efforts to break himself of the habit, he is a narcotics addict. Son Chang had a problem to face that the wily old Tiger was spared-the partially united China of the Nationalist government. Old Chang Tso-lin, living in the days of the great war lords, concentrated his intrigues on Manchuria, Northern China and Japan. When Japan invaded Manchuria...
...roofed wagon. Mrs. Schoenberg played the harp between Lafe Schoenberg's tricks. In 1860, the Schoenbergs emigrated to the U. S. Lafe Schoenberg died in Chicago in 1919. He was 101. One of his sons, Al Schoenberg, a tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name of Al Shean, became famed with the late Ed ("Oh, Mister") Gallagher. Al Schoenberg's sister Minna was a Manhattan fur and lace worker. She married an Alsatian immigrant named Samuel Marx who frequently...