Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slack is work that even employed miners earn no more than the 29 shillings weekly ($7) which is paid by the State as a "dole" to the unemployed. The wage paid is 8 shillings per day ($1.92), but even men nominally "employed" are seldom given work more than three days a week...
...Count Brockdorff-Rantzau. Dr. von Dirksen served during the War as an officer of Uhlans, began his diplomatic career with the Republic in 1918, has never before held ministerial position or ambassadorial rank. C. Prime Minister Hermann Miiller appointed and despatched officials to administer $5,000,000 in unemployment doles to the 250,000 workmen now locked-out in the Ruhr. The gigantic dole was approved by special act of the Reichstag. With great difficulty the deadlock between employer and employed was temporarily settled, last week, when workmen agreed to resume work on the old wage scale pending a decision...
...Column 3, page 15. "Dole" is good canonical English and not slang...
...Grace the Duke of Northumberland has good reason to remember that Benjamin ("Ben") Tillett once said: "So Percy* don't approve of the dole,? don't he? Why his dole for doing nothing is £20,000 ($97,200) a week...
Starting from Oakland, Calif., for the first West-East non-stop continental flight, Colonel Art Goebel last week reached New York, 18 hours, 58 minutes later. Last August, he won the Dole prize for flight to Hawaii...