Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since June the ambiguous wording of the law on collective bargaining has forced NRA to walk a tight-rope on "open" and ''closed" shops. General Johnson banished those words from NRA's dictionary but that did not settle the issue. But National Labor Board has conducted workers' plebiscites in an effort to determine the strength of union sentiment in strike-closed shops. But even where a majority favors union representation, the law nowhere gives that majority the right to bargain collectively for a non-union minority...
Investigation has revealed that the only reason for ringing the chapel bell each morning is that all responsible agent, tradition. Alexander, the janitor of Memorial Church, In answer to questions on the subject, replied, "It's just like my having to ring it with a rope instead of by electricity; they always have rung the Chapel bell that way so they probably always will, even in this new building...
...theelin. The breasts and uterus are common sites of cancer, and many an investigator has suspected a sex hormone as a possible cause. Knowledge of growth, hormones and vitamins are becoming interlaced to the biochemist's delight. He is confident that from them he can weave a strong rope and climb to understanding of life itself...
...huge project, to send a 2,000-mi. rope of roads and railways clear across China at a cost of $50,000,000 gold. It might start from Peiping, dangerously near the Manchukuo border and greedy Japanese eyes; or it might cut southward through the mountains along the Yellow River basin. It might arrow straight west from Nanking to Shensi Province and thence along the overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into...
...Manhasset, L. I., Joseph Smithanna, marine patrolman, putt-putted out to rescue 250-lb. Vera Nielson, struggled manfully to pull her into his boat, failed. Nothing daunted, small Patrolman Smithanna slung a rope around large, patient Vera Nielson, towed her to safety...