Word: sucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep the sound-tight rooms from being stuffy, NBC installed an air-conditioning plant consisting of 64 independent units. In an hour these machines suck in 20,000,000 cu. ft. of Manhattan air, dry or moisten it, warm or cool it as required, feed it through the studios so fast that a complete change of air is effected every eight minutes...
...textile workers, only about 15,000 are children, toiling mostly in the lint-laden air of Southern mills. But their child labor prohibition was packed with moral dynamite which might yet blow the anachronistic practice out of all industry. Next to cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than any other U. S. industry. Most of them are dark. fetid "sweatshops" where youngsters trim and stitch and sew on buttons at starvation wages. But because so much of this cheap dress & shirt work is done in tenement homes, no reliable figures are available of children employed...
Said Hertzog, "My viewpoint is suck That I really don't care very much If the land goes to Hell And the Empire as well, Provided that Hades is Dutch!" Nearly every week in 1932 Premier Hertzog stoutly restated his viewpoint, often" from public platforms: "While I remain Premier we shall remain on gold!" For a single dominion to take this stand was practical in South Africa's case because her digging blackamoors produce more than half the world's current supply of new gold. In 1931, latest year for which statistics are complete, the world mined...
...Some people are so afraid of responsibility they can't sleep," said he after a long suck on the fat cigar. "I'm not, and I don't suffer from sleeplessness...
...given suck to races, wonders, and gods...