Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gobbling and talking in a cheery, noisy hum and clatter as usual. The polished brasses gleamed by the big fireplace over which a great white bust of Homer looks down his nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto the campus stole a tall gangling...
...industrial field, in this land of the free and home of the brave, and agriculture has been the last stronghold against it simply through the multiplicity of its owners and their vast political importance. Mr. Roosevelt, whose whole program is an infelicitous falling between the stools of Marx and Mill, has already had occasion to discover that the capitalists will not brook serious interference in the other parts of their program. Surely they will not suffer him, or his successors, to block them in a path so clear and vital as this. POLLUX...
...revamped NRA expects to get through most of the 200 codes still pending. Most important code now in the mill is that of the construction industry. It is facing determined opposition by labor leaders who contend that as it now stands. the code, by fixing a minimum of 40? an hour for unskilled labor, jeopardizes union wage scales. After the building code is settled, anthracite coal will be tackled...
...falls on worse & worse days, finally collapses into dangerous illness. Assia. a Russian girl who lives in the next room, nurses him, sends for Annette, and mother and son are reconciled. When Marc is convalescent he and Assia fall in love. Assia, who has been through a scarring mill, tells Annette her life story, offers to leave Marc. But wise Annette tells her to forget it, gives them her blessing...
...LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE-]. W. N. Sullivan-Viking ($2.75). Many plain men are puzzled, irritated or tantalized about Science and would like to know what it is up to. But scientists in general, their noses close to their peculiar grindstones, either have no interest in showing visitors through the mill or talk such a Hottentot lingo of pure mathematics that the plain man can make no sense of it. If it were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern science and modern life would be made...