Word: rest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked-for rest in peaceful retirement was short-lived. Within four months, this relatively young man who had literally worked himself to death in four years of fruitful service for his country, was dead. CHESTER D. SEFTENBERG
...ever they provably hurt the U. S. farmer. Next day they meekly adopted a resolution supporting Mr. Hull. For, if they were not quite farsighted enough to be enthusiastic for Mr. Hull's plain point that a nation has to buy in order to sell, they, like the rest of the U. S., clearly recognized the highmindedness of Mr. Hull's perennial principle: world peace through world trade...
Fourteen students attended the meeting, five representing organizations which gave their official support to the formation of such a committee, and the rest as delegates from other interested groups...
...leading players took time off for a little "rest" when they rushed over to Station WBZ for a fifteen minute broadcast of five scenes from the play. Half an hour after they came off the air, they were all reassembled on the stage, and from then until nearly dawn the 175 members of the cast, plus a number of technicians, went through the whole play twice...
...years, whether traffic is good or bad, trucks have tended to do a little better than railroads. In 1925, when anybody with enough spare cash for a second-hand truck could go into the trucking business, trucks carried less than 2% of all U. S. freight. The rest was taken care of by the railroads (76%), waterways (17%), pipe lines (5%). By 1937 trucks were up to 5%, railroads down to 66%, and the process apparently still goes...