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Word: knead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews are the regents of the stock exchange power of the American Union. Every year they manage to become increasingly the controlling masters of the labor power of a people of 120,000,000 souls. . . . With rapacious cleverness they knead public opinion and form from it the instrument of a struggle for their own future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Best Seller | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Langer must know how to make a coherent picture out of thousands of disconnected facts, how to critically appraise his field, and how to acquaint others with his knowledge. Only a flesh and blood individual, trained by flesh and blood teachers, can knead the plastic and indigestible thing called knowledge into beneficial roughage. His skill is acquired through an active mind as well as learned lessons. Because of deficiencies in the English language which even Copey has been unable to rectify, this part of a Langer must be described as personality, inspiration, genuineness. When it is missing, students might just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INCUBATING LANGERS | 5/26/1936 | See Source »

...When all the bakers of Athens struck last week, Greek soldiers were ordered to knead and bake; Athens continued to eat fresh bread. Soon foxy old Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos had an even better idea. He announced that he would call the striking bakers to the colors, enroll them for compulsory military service, order them as soldiers to return to their bakeries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bread & Powder | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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