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...studying labor problems with an eye to the expanding industrial development which is visualized for his country, and in which he believes the cooperative movement will loom large is also enthusiastic about the educational and medical facilities which are being developed under the movement...
From the day Britain went to war, U.S. citizens and their press have freely criticized the British, their Government and their war effort. The British have seldom talked back. But last week, with U.S. foreign policy beginning to loom large in the politics of war and peace, Britons of all political complexions showed a growing concern with the meaning and direction of U.S. policies...
...Everybody said it takes two weeks to train a new loom tender to tie a weaver's knot. Dooley and Dietz did not believe it. They went to a New England mill loaded with war orders and hard-pressed to find workers. The manager sent for the best loom-tender in the plant. He showed the visitors, with lightning movements of his hands, how a good man does it. Gradually they slowed him down to a speed the eye could follow, made him analyze what each finger does. Hours later they knew exactly what happens when the fingers...
Johnston should have been studying maps. When McClellan's Union army began to loom in the despondent winter of 1862 and Johnston decided to retreat from Manassas on Richmond, he shocked Davis by "declaring himself ignorant of the topography of the country in his rear." What shocked Johnston was to find that the secretly planned retreat was known all over Richmond. After that he drove Davis wild by keeping military secrets from...
...place is dank, dismal, depressing. Stacks of grey, fungus-covered piling loom like ghostly sentries, a huge, muddy filled-in ditch resembles the caved-in moat of a deserted castle. A few workmen slowly dismantle a partly built railroad; now & then a grey-clad Louisiana State patrolman plods his lonely beat...