Word: workman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin model workers' suburb of Tegelsee a four-room cottage with garden may be purchased by a German workman by paying $12.40 per month for a total of three years. In nearby apartment houses, not especially provided for workers by the Nazi regime, the monthly rent of a four-room flat...
...found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum in spite of the fighting. Dr. Ralph Works...
Yesterday afternoon the crushed rock foundation had been set, and with saw horses neatly placed to ward off all trespassers, not a workman was in night...
After His Royal Highness and the Labor Front Leader had passed on, another German workman told correspondents, "It would be better for Germany if he had stayed on the throne." Germans seemed this week to think that Windsor must be ardently pro-German, reacted by waiting about the Kaiserhof in crowds of as many as 300, cheering and all but mobbing H.R.H. at every opportunity...
...workman drew himself up to his full height. With a sweeping gesture of his arm and a scornful smile he said, "That, Ma'am, is Widener Library...