Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work Monday through Wednesday, draw their dole the rest of the week. Meanwhile the other half have drawn their dole for three days, work Thursday through Saturday. So well does this half-loaf, half-work system please the proletarian that when he does work he is willing to accept a slightly lower daily wage than if forced to work regularly, and this pleases the manufacturer. There are also cases of deliberate collusion: a man works on the sly and wages are "slipped" to him, but he draws the dole as "unemployed." An adept has even been found who under seven...
...believe that private buying is going to employ the masses of the people again. . . . The obvious thing is to consider the immense architectural possibilities. We must accept the responsibility of rehousing all mankind, rebuilding every city in the world and reclaiming roads and countryside. I think we can well look forward to the time when towns will rebuild themselves as we now go to the tailor for a new suit of clothes...
Falling world prices, the refusal of Australian labor to accept lower wages and consequent acute unemployment have driven the Labor Party to propose inflation. Before the Australian Senate last week went a Government bill providing...
Three of the most prominent Cabinet members at once tried to resign, were curtly told that the King did not accept their resignations. "Most disastrous!" groaned Count de Romanones, "richest Spaniard," entrapped as Minister of State by the King's rebuff. (Despite the fact that Count de Romanones is supposed to own the manorial town of Guadalajara outright, he had been unable to keep its citizens from electing Republicans...
Barnard trustees at first hesitated to accept the prize money. They wondered how their most unselfish girl might be discovered. Barnard's Student Council suggested that the prize should go every year to the senior who has given most willingly her time and service to her college, the girl to be chosen at a meeting of her class, with nominations open, ballots secret...