Word: shear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shear...
...Manhattan, officers of mighty Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, whose common stock sells at about $6 a share, smiled over a letter and $4 received from a girl worker in a southern tobacco field. Wrote she: "Will you please sell me as little an intrest or shear in your oil wells as $4 to start with and then take what it makes for me and add to the $4 until it amounts to a fifty dollar share for me. . . . Write me once in a while about it so I would know when I would start drawing money...
...boys started living, working and studying last week. They were state wards of 14 and 15 years, selected by Henry Ford and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare to be undergraduates of the Wayside Inn Trade School. Nobody pays their tuition. They will sow seeds, grind grains, bake bread, shear sheep, weave textiles to earn wages large enough to keep them in school and have a little spending money. Also they will dig into high school textbooks for four years, after which they will probably get good jobs in the Ford industries. Another modern, almost communistic, dream of Henry Ford...
Exaggeration is the sphere of the movies. But exaggeration, done well, presupposes imagination. In "Variety" all the clever photography in the world was called into play, and even the censor's shear's could not prevent the film from presenting a vitality which few American films can boast. And "variety" was not the toast of Berlin, either. This is not intended as Europophilia. Everything that comes out of the German movie would is not good. Less than one percent of what comes out of Hollywood is creditable...
...agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which began in May (TIME, May 10). At Gibraltar, a Miss Garrod of Oxford University unearthed the frontal bone and other fragments of an immature human skull estimated 25,000 years old (Stone Age). At Corinth, Professor T. Leslie Shear of Princeton University conducted excavations on the great theatre site, disclosing several superimposed theatres of various eras, sculptures of Greeks and Amazons embattled, the labors of Hercules, giants' heads...