Word: cut
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Fascist officials last week. II Duce had just announced in the Senate that the budget for the first five months of fiscal 1930-31 showed a deficit of $43,700,000. Salaries of all state employes from II Duce down to the humblest postman had already just been cut 12%. To offset this 43-million loss further it was announced that $15,000,000 will be lopped from the budgets of all ministries -that is, from all but the war budget. The Italian Army will cost $156,000,000 next year; the navy, $80.923,000; the air force...
...Stalina and the maddest coal mines imaginable. . . . Working conditions so arduous that the labor turnover exceeds 100% per year. . . . Miners on all fours, crawling down (sometimes sideways like crabs) to reach their work a mile and a half underground. . . . Red taskmasters sure that to cut passages high enough for the miners to stand erect would cost too much...
...often. But Navy's Captain Blimp Bowstrom was punting perfectly and the big Navy line always held when it had to. For three periods both teams played hard, tense, defensive football. Then came a play on which Navy overshifted a little, and Army Halfback Ray Stecker cut over to the short side with pretty interference and was free. As he passed the line oi scrimmage he fooled the Navy right halfback and the safety man by swerving.sharply to his left as they came in from the wrong side; then he skipped 56 yards down the south sidelines...
...many a Roman Catholic church worshippers reverently view the "Stations of the Cross"-14 (sometimes 15) scenes from the end of Christ's life. London's Westminster Cathedral has a fine example cut in stone by Sculptor Eric Rowland Gill. Woodcutter James Reid, more ambitious, less successful, has attempted to picture the whole life of Christ in 71 scenes...
...risk of irreverence or heresy, or traditional without originality. On the whole he sticks close to the traditional. Exceptions: showing Christ as a young man wistfully watching the youths and maidens walking out together through the fields; making Judas an evident fiend, a bat-eared Apollyon. Best cut: Lazarus...