Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second glance, the Cabinet was seen to give Adolf Hitler a handsome slice of power, providing the Centre Parties support him when the Reichstag meets, which seemed not improbable, considering the "safeguards...
England's changing fortunes, a slice of history, are shown in terms of one family's sacrifice and loss in "Cavalcade," playing now at the Majestic. Taken from the play by Noel Coward, "Cavalcade" has been fashioned into what is not only the master work of the Fox Film Corporation, but a picture that must be regarded as the greatest achievement of the talking pictures to date...
...meals; living in poor lodgings; mortgaging his future by borrowing money; combining with others in buying books, or buying none at all. "There are too many men," said Dean Rivenburg. "who are trying to live from week to week. They have a pint of milk and a slice of bread for breakfast and one meal...
...right that the support of war veterans and dependents whose condition is actually the result of war service, and not of post war accident, should continue. The League's aim is to stop the mass of payments now being made to numbers of men who, eager to obtain a slice of the governmental melon, have carved out a nitch for themselves that is entirely without justification...
...users of steel are big sources of scrap. Railroads, buildings, old automobiles supply immense quantities. Old rails, cars, locomotives, machinery, pipes, automobiles pour into the big scrap yards to be cut or broken up, carefully sorted. Giant shears leisurely chomp a steel freight car into bits. Oxyacetylene torches slice up rail's, girders, beams. "Skull-crackers" shatter cumbersome castings. Twisted sheets and waste are bundled by hydraulic presses. Great electric magnets on overhead cranes pile the fragments into heaps or load them in gondola cars for the blast furnaces...