Word: patches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were warmed in an electric incubator, while in the poultry house hens were urged to extra efforts by ultraviolet ray lamps. Hogs were kept in their wallow by an electric fence which gave them a 90-volt jolt if they touched it. An electric sprinkler system kept the cabbage patch damp...
Unable to patch up the trouble with RCA was Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Equally ineffectual was General Hugh S. Johnson, engaged by RCA as mediator. At first the strike was marked by nothing more violent than United Workers cheering pickets on with Sousa marches blared through a loudspeaker. RCA retaliated by playing raucous Victor records from a loudspeaker atop its plant. Music failed as a pacifier, however, when RCA began employing strikebreakers. Pickets jabbed girl employes with pins, hurled eggs filled with paint. From the factory non-strikers heaved back red pepper, hot metal...
...negligees, takes a job as a model. The husband (Gene Raymond) suffers from hurt pride. An alcoholic stranger (Robert Young) takes a hand in the proceedings at this point, almost breaks up the menage before the young pair's best friends (Ned Sparks and Helen Broderick) patch...
This was easily the most friendly overture toward Berlin made by Paris in many a year and Yvon Delbos, who carries in his body three German War bullets, made no secret that Jew Blum is in haste to patch peace with Nazi Hitler, knowing that at the first crack of war Blum's Socialist-Communist supporters in France would be overwhelmed by Frenchmen carrying not the red flag but the tricolor. "On different occasions Chancellor Hitler has proclaimed his wish for an understanding with France!" cried M. Delbos. "We do not for one moment intend to question the word...
...impossible to read history without being impressed by the role played by men of learning in good government throughout the centuries. Up until modern times the Church was the great repository of knowledge, and the rulers who culled the best from this patch had no reason to regret their choice. Today the university has replaced the Church in this position, and the professors may yet be made to walk the path of the cardinals. If instead of Richelieu and Mazarin we have Moley and Tugwell, the fault is not in the system but in the man responsible for the choice...