Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven the Pittsburgh operators to adopt like measures, to meet the price competition...
Both observers deem the Soviet State scrupulous in fulfilling the letter of its agreements, and yet inclined to adopt what Miss Thompson calls "a rather Machiavellian attitude," when it proves possible to mulct or ruin a foreign capitalist while still keeping within the limits of his concession agreement...
...fear for "TIME'S Typical Style," because it is being copied so much that soon it will be no longer original. There is no way to copy-write it. TIME may be forced to adopt a new style when its present "Typically TIME" style becomes too common practice...
...attendant general examinations, it was announced yesterday. The physical sciences have long hesitated to embrace the tutorial system because the many inherent differences between the instruction of sciences and instruction in other fields have raised different problems to be solved. The Division of Geology is the third science to adopt the tutorial system, the Divisions of Bio-Chemistry and Biology having adopted it last spring...
...world turns green today in honor of that famous snake-destroyer St. Patrick. In those capitals of Ireland, Boston and New York, green clad parades will tie up traffic for untold hours, shopkeepers of all sorts will adopt a thick brogue in self-protection from belligerent green partisans, and the green flag for a day supercedes all others...