Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front porch of the 200-year-old farmhouse, Secretary Ickes pulled a handle on an electric switch box, announced: "I now start the flow of power into the arteries of this farmstead." Actually he did nothing of the sort because the switch box was only a ceremonial dummy and power was already flowing through Rosedale Farm. Inside the farmhouse were electric clocks, an air-cooling system, a vacuum cleaner with headlights, refrigerator, dishwasher, food-mixer, curling irons. In the farm shop lathes and tools were electrically operated. Wood was cut by an electric saw. In the brooder house chicks were...
...press nor freedom of the films. The New York Times hazarded the bold guess that the British Director of Public Prosecutions, although he claimed to be trying to scotch articles and films prejudicial to the trial of the accused, may have acted because "the offending stories were of a sort calculated to win public sympathy for McMahon" from whose hand the pistol sped...
...airplane factory, half a million rifles, vast ammunition stores, anti-aircraft guns and tanks. Next he tried to think what to do with South China's comparatively well-trained 200,000 "regular" Chinese soldiers who will find time hanging heavy if they are not provided with some sort of activity. The entire South China rebellion, it appeared, was an affair not of lead bullets but of "silver bullets," the elegant Chinese euphemism for bribes too stupendous to be called "squeeze...
Asked Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "What sort of Sunday school outing is this . . . that a lot of male Aunt Hatties are permitted to put their heads together . . . and dirty up the name of a decent young married woman with a public order of dismissal for drinking...
BankA chief plank in the Popular Front's platform was reform of the Bank of France and suppression of the oligarchy of 200 families who own that institution's voting stock (TIME, May 18). After months of guessing as to what sort of reform bill would be introduced, pudgy Finance Minister Vincent Auriol brought forward last week a measure so stern and thoroughgoing as to leave French wiseacres blinking in astonishment...