Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day in St. Louis the Associated Building Interests, contractors' organization, asked the Building Trades Council, to which 18,000 union men belong, to accept a 337%, reduction for the next 18 months. "The contractor employing union men," lamented the A. B. I., "is now virtually out of business, for he cannot compete with the outsider...
...Later Platonic Dialogues" courses in "Theories of Capitalism" or "Science, Religion, and Law in Contemporary Life?" A good case could be made for the advantages of such a change, but the argument would be superficial. There are, Dr. Erskine points out, "a few ideas, a few problems which belong to all time." And it is with these problems that the universities should be most deeply concerned. Their task is to sift the vital knowledge of the ages from the dust of its dead framework...
...Luxembourg Gardens, once the gardens of sour-faced Marie de' Medici, do not belong to the City of Paris, but to the State. It is the duty of the Senate, which meets in Marie's palace, to decide whether pink or orange dahlias shall be planted in the garden beds, who shall sell gaufres (waffles) and lemonade, and whether or not the renter of toy boats shall be provided with a burglarproof shed.* A month ago, therefore, contestants for the Guignol concession, vacant since M. Brioché's death, were solemnly called before...
...must tell you that a woman's body does not belong to her husband. It is her own property, not his. . . . She can leave her husband by her own will . . . and can decide whether and when to bear children. . . . She is a citizen, not a serf...
...length affair, much on the order of the Hoover portrait which de Laszlo finished last week. For $3,000 he may consent to do a sketch, a little like the one of Mrs. Hoover, warm, sympathetic and technically graceful, but without much detail. Naturally, these qualifications are likely to belong to notables. Last week's show, like all de Laszlo exhibitions, was an imposing concordance of Who's Who and the Social Register, a tribute to the eminence of de Laszlo sitters and his ability to do them justice...