Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachers are as intelligent as bricklayers and housewreckers." Therefore, argued John P. Coughlin, Manhattan labor unionite, to the already unionized American Federation of Teachers meeting in New York last week, therefore, they should organize. Another of his points: "Labor needs a group of educators ... for through them we may attain the end of teaching in our public schools, the truths about the great industrial world. . . . Today any fool with a silly idea can almost always sell it to some board of education and clutter up the schools with a lot of unessentials." Only about two score unionized teachers heard...
...waiters crew made its initial appearance today. It paddled downstream about two miles, keeping the stroke very low in an effort to attain coordination and a universal grasp of the principles of rowing. The navy stroke is the one employed, with a long lay-back...
...undergraduate. The result was a trifle startling--he could do so if he were to spend ten hours six days a week for three and one-half years. Since this is nearly a physical impossibility, the student will have to spend surely about four years in order to attain the degree. However, for those who are willing to make the effort, the fruits seem to be well worth the winning, and, once the student has received his degree, he may rest assured that these laurels will carry...
...further resolution significantly recorded the opinion that "a Calif can attain that office by conquest, providing always that he be a Moslem." More succinctly, Islam will rally to any Moslem who arises, smites the faithful and their enemies into submission, and proclaims himself Calif-the temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam...
This summary is evidence that labor has thrown no fright into the capitalists of the United States. This is undoubtedly well. If labor bas ends to attain, the less social scission provoked, the better. But there are these to whom a siesta of American labor agitation would not seem so salutary as it does no Mr. Gary. They are the people to whom the Passable strike is a revelation They are concerned in Mr. Gary's later and more controversial dicta...