Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in the U.S. in 1906, French-born Bedaux washed dishes, worked as a sand hog, finally evolved the Bedaux system of workmen's pay based on units of production. While organized labor screamed that the system was only the infamous "stretchout" and turned foremen into Simon Legrees, Bedaux made millions. He took out citizenship papers, found a new socialite wife in Michigan, hobnobbed with industrialists, finally became a pal of the Duke of Windsor, later openly admitted: "I am an out & out Fascist...
...stench of bodies strewn along Hell Point and across the Tenaru spit was strong. Many of them lay at the water's edge, and already were puffed and glossy, like shiny sausages. Some of the bodies had been partially buried by wave-washed sand; you might see a grotesque, bloated head or twisted torso sprouting from the beach...
...Fred Allison and his collaborators of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, applying a magneto-optic method of analysis, a thousand times more sensitive than the arc spectroscope, to the study of concentrates from monazite sand, believed they had two-millionths of a gram of eka-iodine in the final concentrate. They named it alabamine. Dr. Allison did not isolate it in pure form, nor were other chemists able to confirm his magneto-optic suspicion. The anglo-helvetian stars, however, may merely have fallen on alabamine...
...demands for more broadly selected committees are justified, the Council cannot right its injustice by burying its head in the sand. If the rule assuring committeemen of nomination themselves is sufficient, the Council should not find it necessary to work behind locked doors. Unless the students know who are running the machinery of their government the temptation for log-rolling may prove too great. The Council as their representative body is alone able to satisfy the needs of the undergraduates; if it forgets that prime relationship all its reports and resolutions might just as well be torn...
...moving was the man likeliest to be killed. Those who were motionless in the New Guinea jungle were Japanese. Those who moved were Americans and Australians. The Japanese had cut down coconut palms, roofed their pillboxes with tree trunks, piled the roofs high with sand-filled rice bags. Machine-gun slits and gun bays gave out from cleverly constructed trenches radiating from the pillboxes...