Word: knout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remembers the good old days when Willie Hoppe, world's champion billiard player for 16 years, played at the Union. In former days he used to play with all the great pros of his time--Hoppe, Schaefer, and the rest. Ben judged that the greatest Harvard player was Bert Knout '28, who averaged a run of about...
Like German, Irish, English immigrants, freedom-hungry Poles came to the U. S. in flight from oppression-after their army's ill-starred revolt against Russian domination; to escape the knout of Tsar Alexander II; in a tide in the '80s; in a tidal wave in the 15 years preceding World War I. Greatest concentration of Poles in the world today is Chicago's 500,000. Other great centres: Detroit, Buffalo, New York...
...Stakhanovism is a marvellous invention for brisking up idleness (in old days there was the knout). Stakhanovism would be useless in a country where the workers all work. But out there, as soon as they are left alone, they become slack." The bleak impersonality of some model houses depressed him: "Can this depersonalization, towards which everything in the U. S. S. R. seems to tend, be considered as progress? For my part, I cannot believe it." The nearly universal conformity of opinion depressed him more. "In the U. S. S. R. everybody knows beforehand, once and for all, that...