Word: etc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Freight Handlers. By vote of 6 to 1, the convention voted to suspend from the Federation the union of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...
Every Senator has a yearly allowance for $125 worth of stationery from the Capitol stationery room. There he gets paper, envelopes, pens, etc. (formerly also whisky flasks, whisky glasses, clocks, percolators, etc). If he uses more than $125 worth, the over amount is taken from his salary; if he uses less, the balance of his allowance is remitted to him in cash at the end of the year. Few Senators use this entire allowance...
...trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still he is Mr. A. Huxley, one of the more intelligent phrasemakers of our time...
...sects" would widen the breach with the Roman Catholic Church. This argument prevailed in spite of the two rebuttals: 1) The Roman Catholic Church recognizes no cousins ? from its point of view, not to be orthodox is to be heretical; a miss is as good as a mile, etc. 2) The Roman Catholic Church is not antagonistic to the Federal Council; on the contrary, it has shown great willingness to cooperate in public welfare...
...expenditures of the country are less than half a million dollars a year, and foreign commerce is about three times as much. There are no railroads; there are about 55 miles of roads suitable for automobiles. Cotton goods, gin and tobacco are leading imports; rubber, palm oil, coffee, ivory, etc. are the chief exports. Rubber gets into the category of a chief product, not because there are 22 varieties of rubber trees and plants growing in the jungle, but because there is one rubber plantation recently established, which brought 1,200 acres of rubber plantation into production last year. Over...