Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sounds fine," said an undergraduate; "self-sacrifice and all that. They started something like that down at Princeton, didn't they? But you know America is a free country. By the way," he added, "we're going to break up a meeting tonight. Come with...
...trouble in the relations between capital and labor has always been the mutual distrust with which they have regarded each other. Employees always suspect that their employers is going to cut down their wages or increase their labors; employers are never sure that their men will not break their contracts; they do not even dare trust the words of the union leaders. The longshoremen's strike in New York is a good example of the failure of the men to abide by the decision of their representatives...
...halves and two five-minute extra periods the game here this afternoon between the Cornell university soccer team and the visiting Harvard eleven terminated in a 2-2 tie. In spite of exceptionally hard and fast playing and brilliant foot-work on both sides, neither aggregation was able to break the tie by scoring a winning goal...
Patriots may well view with alarm the break in the National Industrial Conference at Washington. It is an event of grave moment in American affairs and may not be dismissed with a word and a hope. Labor has withdrawn from the conference muttering; the representatives of the public seem to side with labor; capital sits tight; and the country waits to see how badly it is to be ground between the upper and the nether millstones...
...second set Lipman managed to break through his opponents' service and won 7--5; in the third the Rand brothers staged a clever net rally and were the winners 8 to 6. The last two sets fell to the Westerners, although not without a spirited opposition on the part of Rand and Rand...