Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempts were made to mail food and clothing into the plants. Local postmasters refused to accept such parcels on the ground that they were "unusual" shipments and the Post Office had for "30 years" had a rule against making unusual shipments in troubled areas. Steel company officials then charged that a parcel of medicine for a man in one of the besieged plants was opened and sent on its way only after two union leaders had passed upon its contents. To Postmaster General Farley, Republic sent a vigorous protest...
...office." At that point Mr. Abbott muttered: "Adjournment is now taken.'' Picking up his brief case, he stalked into the offices, looked around for an empty desk, hung up his hat and coat, got out more documents. No one paid any attention. He had 14 parcels of property to offer. At the end of each description he said: "How much am I offered for properties described and constituting parcel so-&-so?" The clerks did not even look up. After a pause Mr. Abbott would say inaudibly, "no bid." Finally he picked up his documents, returned to wait...
...unique significance in the field of English letters there can be no doubt. Its phraseology has become part and parcel of our common tongue--bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh. Its rhythms and cadences, its turns of speech, its familiar imagery, its very words, are woven into the texture of our literature, prose and poetry alike. Yet it is of the Orient, we of the West; it is a translation, not an original; and it has reached us by way, not of one language only, but of three. What is it, then, in this translation, which...
...economic queen grandly surveyed the chasm for a moment, looked at the sign that hung over it; then barked an order down the yawning abyss. We watched, fascinated. In a minute a lily-white parcel, wrapped in tissue and tied with a red ribbon, sailed out into the air. She circled under it, like a fairy quarterback, nabbed it, and, darting into her car, vanished in the rtaffic...
...state of the college to the president, and through him to the community as a whole, Dean Hanford has directed public gaze to the rising standard of scholarship at Harvard over the past twenty years. For twenty years ago the general divisional examinations were set up as part and parcel of the undergraduate curriculum, substituting for the old course and point plan. Under the stimulus of this comprehensive system, and goaded further by the growth of tutorial work and of the Houses, the number of honors men in the college has doubled, and many more people are enjoying study...