Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said NO to the State, citizens, manufacturers. Ever since early April, when a 10% cut in cotton mill wages was announced, the seven unions of the New Bedford Textile Council have conducted a strike (TIME, Aug. 13). The former average wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal by a vote of 4 to 3. Still idle were...
...Station, who bowed (figuratively) and spoke to his naval aviators, who said nothing but proceeded to obey a new order, viz.: the Navy's aircraft shall not fly over the duck-shooting sectors of Barnegat during the duck-shooting season. To do so scares the ducks, which are scared enough already...
There are, however, a few places now held by undergraduates which will continue in their present status. The question is whether, at the end of ten years of development of the student body along its present lines, there will be enough men of the calibre required for some of these positions who will be willing to divide their time and abilities with work which yields no tangible return beyond a dead glory and that old bromide known as "experience...
...gift of $250,000 which gave impetus to the plans stipulated that construction be begun by February 1929, and be complete by February, 1930. Failure to meet the first of these conditions will mean the loss of the gift--a quarter of the entire sum needed. It is not enough that the friends of Harvard discharge their responsibility eventually They must discharge it quickly, or become members of that unfortunate class, the pinch-hitters who failed...
...proctor in the middle aisle ran out of papers. He thought for a moment, then he went to the central desk. He obtained the remaining papers and distributed them. There was still a fringe of snapping fingers in the outer seats and there were no more examination papers. Precisely enough had been printed to supply those who had registered for the examination. The arrival of several unregistered examinees had left the proctors in the situation of the five foolish virgins. They herded the snapping fingers into the mezzanine balcony. A proctor sat on the stairs...