Word: contently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generations of the family in whose honor its name was changed from Madison University. St. Lawrence University and Alfred University receive State appropriations, in support of schools of agriculture and ceramics. Both, like Colgate, might without much injustice be called by the title that Hobart, Wells and Hamilton are content to bear the title "college." But they are as strong as many universities that in other parts of the country enjoy greater reputation, and they doubtless cherish hopes of becoming universities of the first rank. N. Y. Evening Post...
...therefore, the present-day workman chooses to strike his balance at eight hours, he is fully entitled to do so. But he must be content with the resulting return; he has no right to expect nine and ten hours' product for only, eight hours' work. This is what he all too frequently falls to see, but the fault is his and not that of the theory of wages. "The demand for the eight-hour day" says Taussig in his "Principles of Economics", is entitled to all sympathy and support", and the modern laborer is quite as adapted...
...Volstead Act applies it, with increasingly stringent measures to meet every new and ingenious means of evasion, or (2) to abandon the one-half-of-one-per-cent interpretation in the Volstead Act, and to read the words 'intoxicating beverage' as referring only to liquors having an alcholic content of more than four, five or even ten per cent. Such an interpretation would probably at once put beer and light wines in the place of the ardent spirits now consumed. One result of that course might be the re-opening of the saloons. That would be a result...
...What is a fair wage, and what the content of a fair day's work, were, perhaps, the most vital subjects for dispute. These are many times left to some crude method of bargaining, where the solution is more a matter of erratic opinion than fact, or merely the result of blustering intimidation. Therefore, immediately our plan of representation was adopted, we set out, through the General Committee, to determine a sound and fair basis of wage. This committee drew up a scale of rates for hourly workers, and a list of basic rates for piece-workers, consistent with...
...generalizations. The morning friendliness of Mr. Hooker's' establishment is deducible from his cordiality, the basking Purple Pig and even an old grandfather clock. But how much better would it be, not to call the grandfather clock--as old and worn as its face appears "inaccurate"! Not content with stopping here the writer further impairs his picture by insisting on deducing friendliness from "the touching picture of a dying fox surrounded by stiff-looking hounds." One may find pathos in the scene and an engendered sympathy for the fox within himself, but the stiffness of the hounds denies any friendliness...