Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Indians in a primitive state of civilization. The majority of the population is composed of English, Scotch, and Irish who have become illiterate and isolated in the course of the last three hundred years. The women in this territory have little social standing, being allotted much heavy manual labor in the work of drying fish, besides having to care for their homes...
...several years, said Dr. Little, college men have been coming regularly to spend their summer vacations in the Labrador region. They usually help with manual labor, such as loading lumber schooners and building concrete reservoirs. In spare time they enjoy a variety of sports. They fish for trout and salmon, have dog-team races, and take long jaunts on skis. There is a good opportunity in this way, was Dr. Little's conclusion, for college men to do something useful and novel in the summer time...
...Fellows. These are the legal holders of the property of the University, and the most important administrative body for guiding its policy. No finer spirit is shown in any part of the University's work than in the service given gratuitously by members of the Corporation. Theirs is a labor of love and of honor, a type of what Harvard expects from her sons both for herself and for the community. Dr. Cabot was a distinguished member of the medical profession, a lover of art and science, and a more than loyal servant of the University. His services...
played, out-fought, and sent home--branded with defeat. A team of Army men, who find rest from strenuous labor in playing the game--who do not pretend to supremacy in it--have thus, more than Harvard and Princeton together, tarnished our football reputation...
...country lass made unhappy by a hard-hearted father, abandons the farm to live for three years with the artist. At the end of three years, satiate with the life of ill-earned case, she becomes a worker in New York at seven dollars a week, organizes a labor union for women, finally passes a bill making possible the eight-hour day for women. The governor who signs the bill is none other than the girl's country lover of the first act, and it is he whom she now marries. The crucial clash in the play comes between...