Word: manual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders, returned to France vigorously critical of Stalin, and was therefore expelled from the French Communist Party. Nonetheless his St. Denis working class constituents have twice more re-elected him although he was opposed and vituperated by Communist candidates. Today this stocky, muscular anti-Communist with hands rough from manual work stands in France against Capitalist "big business" against Marxist ''class war," for ardently nationalist French "trust busting" and for a French application of "corporativism"-i. e., a Parliament whose members each represent a guild or unit in the national economy, a plumber being the deputy of plumbers...
...nearly one-half the common. Presumably UGI knew what was up. But since the first of the year investors have"bought 19.500 shares of Connecticut Railway & Lighting common at the Stock Exchange's ten-share post for as high as $20 per share. Three minutes with an investment manual would have convinced anyone that the stock was a sale...
...forms are a $2 Sunday School Edition for young people, a Cleartype edition "as a contribution to the comfort of many." Also new on the list, which showed a 30% sales gain last year and was last week reported holding steady, are Christian Healing in Moon type, the Church Manual in Braille, eight new solo settings of Mrs. Eddy's hymns...
...dyes her hair green, blue or pink and learned how to swim free-style at past 60. Three years ago she swam to shore when a friend's speedboat caught fire off the Riviera. Said she then: "Ten minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives." She made an exception in favor of her husband who is attache of the British Embassy in Paris...
...play "Handies" a person attempts by manual manipulation to portray a familiar phrase, title, personage or situation. The more extravagantly far-fetched the conception, the better the "Handy." Observers are not expected to be able to identify the improvisation but to be ready to return an even more fantastic...