Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trustworthy TIME is grievously in error when it intimates that Arthur Maillefert was done to death in a Florida "sweat-box"' for the petty crime of "stealing $30" (TIME, Oct. 24, "March of Time...
...toward politics which has been bothering your correspondents and editorial writers the last few days seems to be placing the blame most unfairly. Your editorial repeats the hallowed junk about "academic detachment" and advocates men studying such matters from a high judgment seat far removed from the blood and sweat of actual conflict. That is a good point of departure, but it is insane to expect anyone to get a true picture of any social problem but high tables in the stultifying atmosphere of Harvard self-approval. The average Harvard man is usually a disciple of the mysterious metaphysics...
...architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called, not ''students'' as in other colleges, but by the fine old medieval guild word, "apprentice." Last week Architect Wright had done something about his school idea...
...Hadley. Mass., vexed with his wife, Antoni Ciaglio slyly rubbed poison ivy leaves upon her clothes, her towel. The sweat of her farm work hastened the action of the poison. She almost died. Police arrested sly Antoni Ciaglio, charged him with assault...
...Repelled at first, Barbara Stanwyck grows to love George Brent as his woes accumulate. A onetime suitor appears, lends Barbara money to pay mortgage interest, is knocked out by Brent, who is then in a position to plant his prizewinning wheat. After the paralyzed winter, the long summer of sweat goes by. The wheat has been harvested when the local villain sets fire to the shocks. In putting out the fire. Barbara Stanwyck swoons. In carrying her back to the house, George Brent feels a rush of emotion, they are ready to settle down...