Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three big demands: 35-hour week, store-wide (instead of departmental) seniority for promotions, closed shop. The union withdrew the first demand altogether, said it would compromise on a preferential shop. The Council stood firm and out marched 5,000 (out of 8,000) store employes, mostly girls, to start an ominous carnival in San Francisco's shopping district...
...chemiluminescence when heated in the same manner. Thus chlorophyll not only absorbs light but somehow transforms it and gives it forth again. At present Dr. Rothemund is trying to "correlate the amount of energy dissipated by this radiation to the amount of chlorophyll decomposed, and the energy required to start the process of chemiluminescence...
...members. Editorialized the C. I. 0. News: "Powerful chains of daily papers show that the business world has learned the lesson of combination. But labor has here tofore failed to apply its slogan, 'in union there is strength,' to its press. . . . A most promising start has now been made. . . . The possibilities are unlimited for building a national press to offset the great trustified propaganda machine which the employing interests have established for the manufacture of public opinion...
...last pages, describing his job as secretary to the Bulgarian Consul in Chicago, the start of his literary career, his return to his native country as Balkan correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, are less interesting, but refreshingly unsoulful...
Before their hands ever manage a steering wheel, many New York school children will know that acceleration, not braking, is the way to control skidding; that the best way to start on an icy surface is in high, not low gear. They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light...