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Word: handsaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May Commissar Benediktov started out to get these counter-revolutionary individualists. Thousands of commissioners, many of whom could not tell a hawk from a handsaw, are now swarming over the U. S. S. R., measuring each peasant garden. Abuses, declared Benediktov, will be rectified. All far-from-home plots will be replaced by land adjacent to villages, where officials can keep an eye on them. To millions of hard-working peasants this meant the loss of painfully wrought improvements. And some collective-farm managers, with a characteristically Russian excess of zeal, have confiscated all private plots, legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Problematical Poods | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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