Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME (Dec. 4-Education "School-marm") I was surprised to learn that a one-room schoolmarm would pay boys 15? a week for chores. From my experience in a one-room school I found that the pupils thought it a great privilege to get away from that inimitable humdrum of a one-room school to gather wood and fetch water. To the teacher it was a relief to be rid for awhile of the annoyances of the slothful, ne'er-do-well pupils...
Altering garments to fit the infinite variety of women's figures keeps a great many people busy; but it annually costs U. S. manufacturers an estimated $10,000,000. Nobody sympathized with them until they appealed to the Government. The Government agreed that something ought to be done...
...Ultimatum." But Delegate Suritz is withal no great orator, and when the ghost of collective security walked the cold halls of the vast Palace of Peace at Geneva last week, he stayed at his hotel. Finnish Delegate Rudolf Holsti called upon the League to give Finland "all practical support possible," shouted: "Give us back peace!" Argentine Delegate Rodolfo Freyre, glowing with anti-Soviet hatred, was the spokesman for those who demanded that the Soviet Union be read out of the League. Swedish Delegate Bo Osten Unden moved that a telegram-virtually an ultimatum-be sent to Moscow asking that...
Comrade Suritz is a seasoned Soviet diplomat. He once headed a Soviet mission to Afghanistan, where he greased Afghan palms so well that that mountainous kingdom came to lean toward the Soviet Union more than toward Great Britain. Later he laid the foundation for a long Turkish-Russian friendship, and still later, Jew though he is, he became the Soviet Ambassador to the Jew-baiting Nazis. Adolf Hitler treated him with all honor, however, and modified the famed anti-Semitic Nürnberg laws so that the Ambassador could keep Aryan scrub women and maids under 45 years...
Harvard yesterday announced the completion of an 85-ton cyclotron capable of producing atomic projectiles of 11,000,000 volts energy, which will be of great use for research in the biological and physical sciences...