Word: wipes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Donbas mines, where Stakhanovism was originated by Stakhanov, had not only failed to set a new record but had dropped below the established norm. Comrade Stakhanov's co-workers under ground thus seemed to be either worn out or sulky. Moscow ordered by telegraph "YOU MUST WIPE OUT YOUR DISGRACE." In most cases throughout Russia, statistics showed that during the first five days of nationwide Stakhanovism the workers increased their output, but that it fell during the next five days, as it became impossible to maintain this speedup. When Stakhanovism was first announced, higher pay for greater daily production...
During three days there was silence, broken only once when President Roosevelt announced that a law would be passed, as a matter of moral obligation, to appropriate money to pay farmers for AAA contracts already fulfilled. That would wipe the slate for the past but it gave no clue to the future...
...principle of a Communist society is that every one works according to his ability and receives according to his cultural needs and not according to what he has produced. This means the cultural and technical level of the working class is sufficiently high to wipe out the contradictions between mental and physical labor. "Those who think the difference between mental and physical labor can be eliminated by lowering the technical level of engineers and technicians are absolutely incorrect. Only petty bourgeois jabberers can think this about Communism." These words, perfectly unintelligible to millions of proletarians, held the most profound interest...
...opera days, was an ace compared with the majority of the singers who have appeared in Chicago this season.* La Fiamma was by & large the City Opera Company's most creditable production. It was not enough to make subscribers forget what they had sat through before, or to wipe away the general stigma which has attached itself to Chicago's opera...
...beasts are completely submissive. But when he doesn't, then the tigers rage and smart at Wallace and bite his arms off! But in spite of the naiveties, you'll be in uncomfortable suspense when the vicious cats are turned into the same cage with Wallace. In fact, wipe off that cynical smile; you'll probably enjoy the whole picture...