Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouncing big Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum and three smaller companies with tanker fleets was the task taken on by National Maritime Union's tough, rock-fisted President Joe Curran. From Galveston to Portland his pickets patrolled the docks, laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising...
...Danish-born Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII. Vogue's memorial: wasp waists, a fitting accompaniment to upswept hair, shirtwaists, petticoats. Said Vogue: "Now that we are going to wear 'Queen Alexandra' dresses . . . what shall we do about figures? We'll want waists a little smaller. We'll want bosoms a little more ample. We'll want hips a little more in evidence. . . . For one thing, you may go in for corset lacing. Front lacing. Back lacing. Lacing that will, when you want, nip in your waist two or three inches. . . . To allow your...
...intellectual proletariat. The can only sit at their desks and hope that some students will be willing to gamble three courses on a pretty sure bet,--but three courses in a crowded schedule is a big ante. A great many men would rather lower the ante and take a smaller return...
...assorted dissenters whose freedom was generally regarded as dangerous to the newborn State. By the time of the June purge in 1934, the number of "enemies of the State" had increased to 7,000 and new camps, at Sachsenhausen near Berlin, and near Weimar, were set up. Other smaller ones sprang up in Saxony, Silesia, Prussia...
Played under practically the same rules, indoor polo differs from outdoor polo in five major respects: three players instead of four; four chukkers instead of eight; smaller field; playing surface of clay, sand and shavings; leather-covered rubber ball instead of a wooden ball...