Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supreme Court. Moreover, any worker or union may sue in "courts of competent jurisdiction" (presumably meaning either State or U. S. district courts) for: 1) the difference between wages paid and wages required by the Act; 2) an equal amount in liquidated damages; 3) costs of the litigation. Each one of a firm's employes may sue separately, running up fantastic legal costs for employers. This undoubtedly will serve as a potent incentive to compliance and a rich field for shysters...
...chosen directly by the Surgeon General. Rehabilitation is mainly psychological, based on the principle of "sympathetic treatment," for practically all elaborate physical "cures" are either useless or positively harmful. Only method which has given good results is a rapid reduction over four to ten days of the amount of narcotics the addict is accustomed to take (known to addicts as the "iron-cure"). Restlessness is overcome by several ten-minute warm baths a day. This treatment reduces the addict's excruciating withdrawal pains. Patients in Lexington engage in various occupations on the farm, are allowed a considerable amount...
...when Dr. von Eicken gave Hitler a small amount of morphine as a sedative the Chancellor slept for 14 hours. "I was quite concerned" . . . said the physician. After the operation, he continued, "I warned him to speak softly for a few days, and against letting his emotions lead him to shout and scream loudly. ... He admitted he had been told that before, but forgot himself during a speech...
Abandoned six years ago because inefficient management let the privilege become abused, the plan was replaced by a twenty-five cents admission charge until it was found that all too few settlement children could afford this amount. Men who attend the Virginia game will have the satisfaction of knowing that they are watching more than just a football game, that, win or lose, the team will be gaining friends for Harvard...
There is a lighting system in Boylston Reading Room which is only equalled by Widener in the amount of eye-strain and glare it produces...