Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard favors the straight arm technique. They either hold their books in one hand, at their side, or they keep their hands in their side, or they keep their hands pockets and slip the books inside their arm. But the arm is always in a vertical position. The load is generally reduced to a minimum...
...union policy the two groups are clearly split on two major points. Whereas the Martin group is planning a big push on Henry Ford, the Communist "party line" is against a Ford showdown, feeling that at this time it would be disastrous. On the other hand the Mortimer group believes that in negotiating a new contract with General Motors it would be very helpful to have a series of short, controlled, harassing sit-downs and "quickies." And in the recent Fisher Body outlaw Sit-down (TIME, Nov. 29), the followers of the "party line" fought desperately, if futilely, to have...
...little house on the little piece o' land, with an alfalfa patch and rabbits for Lennie to pet, where one day they will live "off the fatta the land" was more than a bedtime story. It was George's dream, and the dream of every wandering ranch hand who reaps the planting of others, collects his fifty a month, moves on to other planters' harvests...
...last fortnight and 102,000 year ago. And the New York Times business index slid on down, having slumped more in the past three months than in the 13 months following the 1929 market smash With such figures in the headlines, mostly a week to two weeks behind hand and only a further decline in view, there was ample reason for renewed fall of stocks, and week Dow-Jones industrial averages set a new low of 113.6, then bounced back ten points in the customary rally...
...January. Having piled up excessive inventories as prices rose, woolmen for the past year have been selling ardently, buying cautiously. Both prices and inventories are now down, but so is manufacture of wool goods (currently off about 25%) and therefore all wool buying has been on a hand-to-mouth basis for several months...