Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally Premier Briand called a spade a shovel: "M. Herriot, listen to me. I do not know what will be the outcome of this duel between...
...shutdown must not endure. It endangered the very existence of the Renault company. Already the shovel-nosed Renault, which glides silently through Paris traffic and howls down the routes nationales, was having stiff competition in the French markets. And U. S. motor cars were intruding in horrible numbers. The first quarter of 1926 the U. S. had exported 82,496 cars and trucks. Many had come to France?...
...heat large panfuls of gold and silver coins as hot as possible on the galley stove. The beggars of Brightlingsea, anxious to humor his whims, appeared in rowboats and caught the coins in their bare hands as Mr. Brown hurled the bits of gold and silver overboard with a shovel. If the beggars attempted to use gloves, he hurled boiling water upon them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in £100 notes ($500) and heaved them at submissive heads. Countless eyewitnesses testify to his evident delight in scorched...
...addressed by its retiring President, Dr. J. McKeen Cattell of Manhattan, and by its President for 1926, Dr. Michael I. Pupin. Dr. Cattell described "a new profession of psychological and industrial engineering," already successful in England. "In every field of activity, from the use of the pick and shovel, of typewriter and ledger, through the factory and office, to the organization of the work of the Executive or the Congress of the nation, investigations might be made which, if put into effect, would add from 10% to 100% to effective productivity and lessen to an equal extent effort and fatigue...
Psychologically sound is the method used to win the confidence of the laborers: the college man shows his ability with pick and shovel, ax and saw, so that his fellow laborers may judge him by their own standards. In the evenings, conditions are reversed; the college man gives instruction appropriate to the development of his pupils...