Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office, a mile from the explosion scene, just a few minutes before the bomb went off. She swore he carried a suitcase in which was, not bombs, but a supply of acid which Billings was squirting on automobile engines as part of a garage mechanics' strike...
...record for an "uphill hundred" (TIME, July 14) will be officially accepted. Should a man be barred from heaven for a work of supererogation? That the uphill hundred was such a work I believe you must concede when you reflect that while "one's feet would strike upsloping ground more quickly than level," they would leave it less quickly. To put it another way, while on a track sloping slightly upward the ground in front is nearer the point where a runner's legs join his body, the ground behind is farther from it. And picking...
...Strikes by Communists, or led by Com- munists, were Witness Wood's chief topic. He said the needletrade walkouts at Passaic, N. J. (TIME, March 15, 1926 et seq.), at New Bedford, Mass. (TIME, June 2, 1928), at Gastonia, N. C. (TIME, April 15, 1929 et seq.) were started by Reds who appealed to "parlor pinks" for "relief funds," but who disappeared when such money stopped coming in. He urged strict anti-Red legislation but discounted the affects of the Reds among U. S. work- ingmen: "They never won a strike in the U. S. . . . So far as taking this...
...Mason City, Iowa, Mrs. Eugene Larson, getting fatter, sued for divorce. Said she: "My husband made it a rule to kiss me every time I lost a pound and strike me whenever I gained a pound...
...insignificant that the first plane to cross the Atlantic westward on a nonstop flight from one airport to another, found its way through Newfoundland fogs and magnetic disturbances almost entirely by radio. The Bremen, only plane preceding the Southern Cross, had no radio and was lucky to strike land where it did at Greenley Island...