Word: sorest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the squad will be drilled as though there were no spectators present, a varied program has been arranged. There will be no rough contact, however, since this will be only the third day of practice when muscles are going through their sorest and stiffest transitions. With the added incentive to hard and spectacular playing of a stadium full and spectators there would be a strong likelihood of injuries were a scrimmage attempted...
Last week this sorest of Baltic feuds was suddenly reported about to be healed by a Polish-Lithuanian peace pact. Partial confirmation came when Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck, instead of scouting the rumors, remarked pointedly that on his latest visit to the League of Nations he had a long chat in Geneva with the Lithuanian Minister to Paris, Dr. Petras Klimas whom he had hitherto avoided like the plague...
...Jugoslavia topped off a two-month press attack with a violent outburst against Fascist Italy and all its works. Published were entirely imaginary stories of strikes and riots in Milan and Turin in which dozens were supposed to have been killed. The semi-official Vreme of Belgrade touched the sorest spot of all with a sneering description of Italy's Wartime defeat at Caporetto and ugly references to the cowardice of the Italian army...
...decidedly more encouraging outlook," he purred. "My question is not answered," snapped the woman. "If you were to wipe out the salaries of all the general officers of the company," the officer replied, "it would amount exactly to 6? a share." Priceless Schwab. Salaries were also the sorest subject at a stockholders' meeting in Newark. The Federal Trade Commission two months ago listed Chairman Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel as the highest-paid executive in the U. S. in 1932, bonuses excluded. He received $150,000 in 1929, $250,000 in 1932. Traveling in Europe for his health...
...Sorest Spot in the side of organized U. S. Labor at present is the wound whence the railways extracted a 10% horizontal wage cut last year (TIME, Feb. 8). President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, speaking for the running crafts (engineers, firemen & enginemen, conductors, trainmen), served notice that while railway workers might agree to continue the reduced pay scale another year on Jan. 1, they would fight to the last ditch incipient demands for further reductions by railway management. Railway unionists will meet in Chicago Dec. 7 to consolidate their position before meeting with management representatives...