Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noun "virgin" is not one which gentlemen or ladies employ, in any other than a religious connection. I shall inquire from my attorneys whether its use in the letters to which I refer is or is not libelous. You may rest assured that my married or unmarried state, as the case may be, is not a subject upon which I shall stoop to satisfy curious vulgarians...
...quietly raised from $8,000 to $12,000 per annum. He was cheered when he heaped contempt upon the "miserable coal camps of West Virginia" (nonunionized) and said that union miners would never let their standard be determined by "the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ." To signalize the U. M. W.'s proud defense of their present $7.50 minimum for six hours work, one Gus Smith would intermittently break into song, and the U. M. W. band of Monongahela, W. Va., led by one B. V. Bork, would trumpet the chorus, while galleries echoed the words...
...Typesetters are not expected to know anything; but we employ the best talent that money and good prices can command for proofreaders, and there is nothing to be said in extenuation of their shortcomings...
...should employ brighter men to edit your financial news. RAYMOND R. FRAZIER...
...Miami, Fla., where a new compact will be attempted. The Operators, notwithstanding the fact that 1926 was a banner bituminous year, are having trouble. The soft coal industry, unlike the hard coal industry, is only partly unionized. Thus, the operators in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, who employ union labor at $7.50 per day, have to compete with companies in West Virginia and Kentucky, employing non-union labor at wages as low as $3 per day. With Great Britain mining its own coal again, the union operators will doubtless close many a mine in 1927 unless they can arrange...