Word: plows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week the U. S. reading public was told that, since it had approved and for ten years supported its first weekly newsmagazine, TIME, now it should have another, an improvement on the original. "We believe there is a field unplowed," said the editors, "and we are sharpening another plow. . . . News-Week's ample treasury is the sum total of more than 120 individual investments, made by men and women who believe that thousands of Americans want and need the particular kind of a newsmagazine that News-Week...
...graded undistributed profits tax. Fortnight ago. the I. C. C. showed what it thought of this phase of the New Deal's tax philosophy when it permitted Greyhound Corp. (busses) to issue a preferred stock dividend, on which holders will have to pay income tax. so as to plow back 1936 earnings without paying a fancy tax penalty. Last week in its report to Congress, I. C. C. amplified its position in the matter...
...first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which are thrown a blazing pine tree, an enormous plow, an Archbishop, a giraffe and a cloud of feathers...
...Downhill Skiing" is as concise without being too brief as any book of "How To Do This or That" can be. It is profusely illustrated with beautiful photographs of christianias, stem-turns, snow-plow-turns, and telemarks in their various stages of execution. Otto Lang emphasizes with the same insistence of his senior, Hannes Schneider, that a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of skiing is essential to maximum pleasure and safety. The fundamentals of the Arlberg technique are the "voriage" or "forward crouch," always keeping the heels on the skis, medium "edge" on turns with emphasis upon body movement...
...threw aside partisanship years ago, supported Al Smith and Roosevelt, thrust his seamed face and jutting jaw and untrammeled thinking into making a fight like that over the purchase of Muscle School. "My College," he says, "had been the farm." As if to prove it, he still drives a plow through Nebraska state every summer...