Word: balke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...premises of the employer." In case of a deadlock with the management the head of the company was to render "a final decision that shall be just and fair." These labor provisions drew the A. F. of L.'s angry protest for, if approved, they would balk its unionization campaign at the outset. Last week Steel and Labor were preparing for a red-hot battle at hearings before the National Recovery Administration...
...merely "frozen"; 3) that France, though perfectly able to make the Dec. 15 payment (the first due after expiration of the Hoover Moratorium), will not be able to make, over the next 56 years, her total due payments of 6½ billion dollars and might as well balk now as later...
...present red tape, would induce many of the men, who do not now exercise, to utilize the recreational opportunities which they have hitherto for one or another reason chosen to ignore or avoid. In particular a number of the Freshmen, who, after taking their year of free compulsory exercise, balk at the sight of a fee suddenly thrust in front of them as Sophomores, would continue to exercise if they were to be charged anyway. Of course, those incapable of exercising should be absolved from paying any such...
...Hoyt Whipple (University of Rochester) showed that something in liver causes red blood corpuscles to grow, they and others have sought some simple way of getting the liver into an anemic's system. Eating half a pound of liver a day will do the trick. But most patients balk at eating liver so often. Liver juices taken by mouth are not much more palatable...
...base hits--Williamson, Hitney, Gengarelly, Lee. Double play--De Give to Hines to Murphy. Left on bases--Harvard 4, Yale 7, Yale 7, Bases on balls--off De Give 6, off Broaca 0, Struck out--by De Give 11, by Broaca 12. Passed ball--Collins, Balk--De Give. Umpires--Hart and Spellman, Time of game...