Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen of the canvases relate the visual majesty of 17 Toledo industries. In them rude men ladle out molten metal, neat girls direct bottle-filling machinery, smoke stacks smoke, vast iron wheels whir, newspapers flutter on the city, crowds walk in the rain before the shops, fantastic masses of machinery move. Two additional canvases show Toledo of today?neat, smoking, moving; Toledo of the future?a high, angled sky line rivaling that of Manhattan. The represented industries...
...could not walk without help; he could only teeter on his toes. He could not hold pen, pencil or eating utensils; fellow students were obliged to write his notes and to feed him in the college dining-room. Although his mind was keen and he formed ideas clearly, he expressed himself with greatest difficulty. For studying his lessons (he was good in Greek, Latin, French), he had an apparatus built to hold his books...
...entered the automobile, a young man, one Zafioios Goussios, approached with apparent intent to serve a petition upon the chief executive. Policemen beamed paternally. The president was so democratic that anybody could approach him, thought they. Yes, indeed, all Athens was accustomed to seeing him walk the street, quite alone, and often a stranger would salute him and perhaps pass a few words about this and that...
Fortunately, the president escaped serious injury. The bullet passed through his hat and grazed his right temple, splintering the bone. He was immediately driven to the hospital, where he was able to walk to the operating room. His face suffered minor cuts from the splintered glass. His condition was said to be satisfactory, but the Athenians worried over him fearing that the shock would be more than his age could stand...
...significance of the strike, however, was seen rather in its probable effects on other wage-earners than in the walk-out itself. Many workers are admittedly underpaid and a general move for increases is now envisaged, as was sometime ago predicted by John Maynard Keynes, British economist. This move has already received a fillip by the Federal Government which recently raised the salaries of its employes. In this connection other able economists pointed out that Germany is short-sighted in that she does not grasp that raising the standard of wages also raises the standard of living and promotes internal...