Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From their jails, strike-leaders begged their followers to "stand firm...
There was a figure like an English country gentleman-Mr. George H. Doran. There was a firm-jawed, genial Virginian-John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...
Sirs: TIME, March 22, page 5, middle column, near bottom you have Galuchia Coolidge. Only one correct way to spell. It is Galusha. Family started in Shaftesbury, Vt. Elijah Galusha was in furniture business here lor 50 years and his son Henry Galusha was in firm Squires, Sherry & Galusha for 50 years...
...their conclave last year, these British schoolmasters condemned women teachers out of hand; said they were responsible, by their mollycoddling methods, for increase in juvenile crime; said that every boy over seven should be under the firm hand of a man. Meeting shortly afterward, the National Union of Teachers referred to the general activities of the National Association of Schoolmasters as "pugnacious prancings" (TIME, April...
...look upon the foolish and unlawful measures they are now taking as a hopeful sign for the strikers. Even with their leader Weisbord in jail, they have proved by their peaceful but firm adherence to the strike that they will never give in until their demands...