Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million for the plant and another million for the equipment. Then he digs up a lot of orders and hires a force of 500 men and puts them to work making cheese or rolling pins or whatever. . . . Well, what kind of men does he get? Experts on statistics will tell you that a certain percentage are absolutely honest and want to work hard, another per cent will steal anything they can get away with, another group are malcontents, while another section are like Rush Holt, "natural-born hell-raisers." The first thing our owner knows, there is "labor trouble...
...some 3,000 other people who had acquired special permits surged into the Hall of St. Andrew (Throne Room) of the Great Kremlin Palace. The seats for the spectators were separated only by a small barrier from those of Russia's elected representatives. So it was hard to tell who was who and spectators solemnly raised their hands at the same time as deputies, whenever a vote was taken. This would have led to confusion, except that every vote was a 100% unanimous endorsement by all deputies & spectators of whatever the Government proposed...
London's American Chamber of Commerce heard William Hulme Lever Viscount Leverhulme, governor of world-spraddling Lever Brothers, Ltd. (Lux, Lifebuoy Soap), tell about the perplexity of efficiency experts over a certain laborer, the only worker in a factory to pull, not push, his wheelbarrow. Asked why, the laborer said: "Well, guv'nor, hi 'ates the ight of the bloomin' thing...
Locals of sufficiently retentive memory will tell as a fact that there now exists less sentiment of "classmates, just classmates" than before the consummation of President Lowell's supreme segregation. This makes sense a priori. Put a man in one of the Houses for three years, and he is certain to come out considering himself not a member of the Class of 19. . as much as a member of blank House, graduating...
Cummon now, howja know he's a Harvard? she insisted. Well, you really wanna know, huh? he said. I tell ya then. See this car? Every seat in it is taken, ain't it? Everybody's sittin that's got a place to sit. But there's still one vacant seat left--the one next to HIM. That means he's a Harvard for sure...