Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the country. Fifteen were shot, one killed when picketers and steelworkers clashed at Ambridge, Pa. Silk mill strikers marched 10,000 strong in Paterson. N.. J. Corset-makers and truck drivers struck in Manhattan. Grape pickers struck in Lodi. Calif. A strike of 10,000 machine tool and diemakers was on in Detroit. In Pennsylvania, 55,000 coal miners were still out (see p. 12). Philadelphia bakers left their ovens. Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board barely averted a strike by 650 commercial air pilots. A dozen striking window washers pulled two men off their ladders...
...bare reading knowledge of one coupled with a smattering of another," Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Harvard School of Education, stated in a CRIMSON interview yesterday. "I believe," he said, "that the student should acquire a permanent command of at least one language as a tool of learning and a source of continued education and satisfaction. Colleges ought not to hide behind the abstractions of an admission system in terms of points, a system which encourages carrying Latin for four years and then dropping it, French for two or three years, and German for a little while...
Shrewd, fiery Defendant Dimitroff tried to trap the dull Dutchman into admitting that he acted as a Nazi tool...
...what his dreamy employer was groping for. "You think a man is not quite all there if he puzzles you," he tells the electrician just before the temple goes up. "He can't be right in his head if his notion of things won't fit your tool box. As near as I can see it, he thinks you are crazy. How about that...
...burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where Luer was kept...