Word: cheapness
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...Herr Quidde?" roared the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, and answered: "More than 30 years ago he gained cheap fame with the pamplet Caligula." Indeed, few Germans could recall, last week, the full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace...
...addition, there are influxes over both the Canadian and Mexican borders which are unrestricted by quotas. Southwesterners want no restriction on Mexican immigration, which provides cheap ranch and mine labor...
...should not think that you would want to make yourselves look stingy and cheap, but that is the impression produced upon me by the heading above your new "Fashion Department" [Nov. 14 issue...
...capital has been expended on Russian industry by the government, it remains the most serious problem that the Soviet is facing. The basic reason for this is that, with its bureaucratic control, its restricted markets, and its general inefficiency, Russian industry is not able to turn out goods cheap enough to appeal to the peasantry, its logical customer...
This project, like its sister scheme of a Franco-English tunnel under the Channel, has long been mooted. According to U. S. engineers, it would be "child's play" to build it, owing chiefly to favorable submarine conditions, cheap electrical power for boring and a plentiful supply of skilled labor...