Word: longes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fierce squabbling and often fistic battle between Russian farmers and the Soviet grain collectors empowered to cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches at clandestine sales. Vexed peasants long ago tried "passive resistance," refused to sow more than enough grain for their personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph Stalin is outsmarting the peasants with a policy called "Confiscation & Collectivization." Last week he celebrated "Collectivization Day" while mujiks glowered and grumbled. When a peasant does not sow and reap...
Forward thinking, even brash in his public policies is General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. A former Boer commander who harried the British long and successfully from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase...
...days. Then Court Chamberlain Hiott publicly denied with appropriate indignation that Her Majesty the Dowager Queen Marie had communicated any statement, interview or intimation whatsoever to Universal. "I consider this affair," said he, "a shameful scandal!" Epilog: Eight-year-old King Mihai was trotted out in his first long trousers to receive the homage of the entire cabinet, shake the hand of previously rebuffed Regent Constantin Saratzeanu...
Lolly. Two flies, one mechanical and one temperamental, have long been present in the ointment of fashionable Manhattan theatre-goers. Mechanically, it is impossible to dine at 8 o'clock and see the first act of any play. Temperamentally, it is annoying not to know in advance whether the play will be sad or amusing, a problem or a diversion...
...Langley will have an unobstructed airplane runway 1,200 ft. long by 200 ft. wide. At the mid-sides the platform will project to give room for a hotel (with restaurant and bar), hangars, storage sheds, weather bureau, offices, hospital wards, lighthouse. Platform and buildings will be 80 ft. above calm water level. Because no Atlantic waves have ever been seen more than 45 ft. high, it is improbable that the runway ever will be awash. The buoyancy columns with their stabilizing disks will reach 160 ft. below water level. That is considerably deeper than any wave action has ever...