Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lines rather than the traditional horizontal (craft) union structure was precipitated by the Oilfield, Gas Well & Refinery Workers, who were about to be decimated among metal craft organizations. Other small, new industrial unions were marshaling for verticalism under the covert leadership, it was said, of John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers are organized vertically and form the most powerful single A. F. of L. unit...
...talk about Dick Harlow's search for a "60-minute team"--a group of eleven men who would be able to go from starting whistle to closing without relief. Now, as he prepares the Varsity for its first away game, Harlow seems on the verge of achieving such a unit...
More than this, eight of the starting eleven have been playing together as a unit since the early days of practice after the Springfield game, two weeks ago. With the addition of Mike Adlis, Struck, and center Bob Jones, they form a hardy, reliable team that should be able to go through the greater part of the game without replacement...
...resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic bases beyond the Ural Mountains too remote to be attacked by any European power. Szechwan Province, ringed by mountains and penetrated by no railway, will be developed by the Generalissimo, say his friends, into "a great, self-supporting and strategic unit." Larger than France, it is also more populous, and so distant from, Japan as to be, at its farthest western tip, only 100 miles from India...
...decibel is a varying unit of loudness. It represents the smallest difference in the level of sound which the ear can detect. The decibel difference between the rustle of leaves (8) and whispering (11) represents small intensities of sound. The decibel difference between a motor truck (77) and an elevated train (81) represents tremendous energy...