Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence would disagree. Mill-owners were glad to keep their labor force intact; unions had the stagger provision written into contracts. Said Arthur Brown, area director for the C.I.O.'s Textile Workers Union: "It costs the state no more to issue three consecutive compensation checks to three different men than to issue them to the same man. And if they just lay off, not only do the people who are unemployed stop buying, but so do the ones who are employed...
After a while the automatic pilot went out of commission and the passengers stood watches at the wheel to spell the crew. The drinking water turned brown. Those who could eat chewed miserably on bologna sandwiches and cheese crackers, or starchy concoctions slapped up by lola Nicholas, a fry-cook who had never been aboard a ship before...
Although it decisively beat BU, BC, and Brown last week, the Crimson is never-the less an inexperienced squad and boasts but two returning lettermen in its singles lineup. In contrast, Cornell, always, a tennis powerhouse, has only one newcomer in its lineup and among its stars is a pair of juniors nationally recognized in amateur tennis...
With their feminine players, the Idlers have a real gold mine. Very nicely decked out in some colorful Edwardian costumes, Connaught O'Connell and Lydia Hurd were properly biting and caustic as the staunch man-lover an man-loather, respectively. The Edith of Jane Johnson was reminiscent of Pamela Brown in "The Importance of Being Earnest," and Miss Johnson could hardly be paid a better compliment...
...these two matches, the closest was the number three doubles played by Bacon and Craig. The first set was a pushover for Brown...