Word: staines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France. Succeeding Ministers of Justice have always spiked the move, but Minister Marc Rucart is one French Minister of Justice who has actually seen the colony. Years ago he went out as a member of a Salvation Army junket, returned convinced that the prison colony was not only a stain on French prestige and a heavy check on the development of Guiana, but a needless expense. To support some 6,000 prisoners in torment the French Government must pay about 15,870,000 francs ($1,050,000) a year...
...scientific measurement at last week's demonstration. Estimates of how much of the cotton the machine picked the first time over a row varied from 50% to 75%, the second time 80% to 95%. Estimates of how much the reduction in grade, caused by trash, leaves and possible stain, would lop off the grower's return ranged from $3 to $7 per bale. Frequently heard was the opinion that, even if the machine were practical on huge, flat, high-yield tracts, it would do poorly on small plots, on hilly ground, on low-yield acreage. Sample comment...
...mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting world revolution for their own mysterious ends. When the roof leaked and the rain stained his bedroom ceiling, Bengt thought the stain looked like a mocking, Jewish profile. When his sister went to pieces, called him an affected young prig, he tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would...
...Attorney General Russell Hardy opened with a blast that the $660,000,000 assets of the defendants had been "maliciously and unconscionably used" to "crush" Fanchon & Marco, who had "suffered losses to date exceeding $200,000." Said he: "The conduct of the defendants in this case has put a stain on a great industry...
...movement she drove it home, straight downwards through the naked breast, up to the hilt, then drew it out and cast it down on the plank. . . . With a raucous cry Marat fell backwards . . . stiffened in agony, his eyes staring, his tongue protruding and blood gushing from the gash" to stain the water of his bath. Death was instantaneous, for the blow, clean and skillful, traversed the lung and opened the heart...