Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hour Day. Many of the resolutions which were thrown into the convention hopper were perfunctory: a proposal that Congress immediately authorize the expenditure of $5,000,000,000 for public works; denunciation of the practice of "throwing men over 45 on the industrial scrap heap"; a petition to Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York to give his firemen an eight-hour day. But others were more significant, indicated that Labor might be getting its back up. Harshly condemned for "inhuman working conditions" and referred to as "a $700.- 000,000 outrage" was Six Companies, Inc., builder...
...days of the organization. "The right to work is a sacred right that every government, no matter what it's for. must guarantee if it is to endure. What shall we say of a system that relegates men at the prime of life to the human scrap heap and that knows no remedy for the situation other than a reduction in the standard of living? I warn the people who are exploiting the workers that they can only drive them so far before they will turn on them and destroy them! They are taking no account of the history...
...leaf that clothed all. In doing this, the swallow stayed north too long. Winter came and the swallow died of cold. The Prince's heart cracked. The Town Councillors, squabbling over the Prince's metal body. threw the heart and the small dead bird on an ash heap from which an angel carried them to heaven...
...find" ten years ago, Diego Rivera now enjoys the honors which the world only occasionally is pleased to heap upon a living genius. Officially the trumpets were sounded in his praise two years ago when the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects was given him for his work in Mexico City's National Preparatory School and Ministry of Education (TIME, May 26, 1929). A huge, roly-poly man, he sometimes works 16 hours a day. Once he exhausted himself, fell off his scaffold, split his head...
...discovered it was Graber's tendency to forget. Then Graber began to trot forward, slowly, easily: suddenly his body swung up, over the knot of people, poised above them for a second at a wildly reclining angle in midair. Then he straightened, shot clear, dropped into a limp heap on the sawdust pile. The crossbar, placed at the height for a new intercollegiate record of 14 ft. ½ in., shivered but did not fall. A few minutes later, versatile Barney Berlinger of Pennsylvania (TIME, May 4), broke a tie for second place and Southern California had won the meet?...