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...work days?three a week, the members having furiously opposed a four-day week, though for laboring men they favor six toil days between Sundays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: House of Loafers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down with a twig. When they were working through rapids they had to look out for sting rays. It took them 27 days of "most persistent toil" to make 180 miles -which was 60 miles in a straight line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Nowhere | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...land it may be confiscated by the Government, proclaimed a "collectivist farm," and thereafter worked by communized cultivators who may or may not include the former owner. Last week the Government announced that 3% of all peasant farms in Russia have been thus collectivized. Five million communized yokels now toil on 60,000 collective farms comprising what were once more than 1,000,000 peasant homesteads. In these "Grain Factories" snort Ford tractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Notes | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Referring to the now almost complete Anglo-U. S. naval agreement (TIME, Sept. 23) the President said: "There are proposals which would preserve our national defense and yet would relieve the backs of those who toil from gigantic expenditures and the world from hate and fear which flows from rivalry in the building of warships." To define as narrowly as might be prudent his conception of what constitutes "adequate preparedness" he declared: "That preparedness must not exceed the barest necessity for defense or it becomes a threat of aggression against others and thus a cause of fear and animosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace & Disarmament | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...most blessed reward of human toil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Battle of the Babes | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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