Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biochemistry, English, and Government will adopt the dual, plan A and B tutorial systems next year, it was learned definitely last night...
...April 19 issue of TIME with being the "first in the trade to adopt an 'all-wool' policy (1900)" and "first with the camel's hair coat (1912)" is not, apparently very well-founded in the history of the ready-made clothing business...
...strength and virility of the American language comes quite as much from the aptness of its native words as from the readiness with which we adopt them. Our best Americanisms, i.e. those most vivid and descriptive, indicate their meaning without definition. Roughneck, for instance, or cloudburst or talented (the English tore their hair over that one, but they use it now) or spellbinder...
...debt. In the House Republican John Taber of Aubun N. Y., moved to send the Department of Agriculture $925,000,000 appropriation bill back to the Committee to have 10% lopped off. The House did not want to economize on the farmers and New Dealers did not want to adopt a Republican's motion. Only 32 members voted...
...clothing company is credited with having been the first in the trade to go in for national advertising (1897), first to adopt an "all-wool" policy (1900), first to abolish contract homework (1910), first to sign a collective bargaining agreement (1911), first with the camel's hair coat (1912), first to guarantee color-fastness (1915). Stressed particularly last week was the company's 26 years of industrial peace since it started to deal with Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, potent supporter of John L. Lewis's C. I. O. Laborite Hillman, who got his start...