Word: homework
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Homework. The idea behind prohibiting homework in formulating the embroidery code was to prevent manufacturers from sweating wretched women for such appalling wages as 5¢ an hour. Nevertheless, in Manhattan Mrs. Nenette Sabatini and Mrs. Rose Perricone had young children to support, so they applied to the State Industrial Commissioner for permits to work at home. They were denied, and the case came to court. Mrs. Sabatini said she made as much as $15 a week crocheting, Mrs. Perricone said she made $22. Domestic duties prevented them from working in a factory. The judge found that the code prohibition "appears...
...Bismarck, Schwab, Ford, Edison, Sperry, Steinmetz et al., supplemented by Success Stories of the standard American Magazine type. There would be lectures by Instructor Wadsworth, stressing self-analysis, adaptability, flexibility of interest. Studies would also include a spatter of psychology, memory, will, habit, the brain and its structure. For homework the students would work over intelligence tests of the Army type and "Standard Interviews," a method of self-analysis which Instructor Wadsworth devised...
...more careful selection of problems would ease the burden of the student and would allow the professor to lecture on Mathematics instead of working over the homework. Thus the course might be made more effective as well as more interesting...
Robert Marion La Follette, chubby and dressy, of Wisconsin, who cheerfully follows his father's credo without half of his father's fire. "Economic injustice" is his chief cry. An experienced parliamentary troublemaker, he blurts criticism of President Hoover. He does much legislative homework...
...chattering youngsters were bussing to the Brook Park Elementary School, across the road from Cleveland's Airport. Some peered out of the frosty windows at the light snow on Sheldon Road. Others made last-minute efforts at homework. The bus stopped at a grade crossing on the New York Central R. R. while a passenger train clanked by on the gleaming tracks. Driver and children watched the swaying cars. None thought to look up or down the broad right...