Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most diverting features of a presidential campaign is the number and enthusiasm of the various minor parties that enter candidates in the race. There is a Farmer-Labor party, a Prohibition party even in these dry times, and until 1924 the Socialists also had a man in the field. Then they were sacrificed to LaFollette's Progressives and are only just being revived. In fact during the last week, while Governor Smith has been attracting crowds at the churches he attended on his Southern trip, that party has been holding a convention in New York to choose candidates...
...Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice, but I must show, for instance, how he may be helping prostitution by buying a scarf made under conditions of sweated labor in some Far East factory...
April is here, Easter is almost a reality, vacation is in sight; and professor, wishing to sweeten that one little week all the more by contrast, fill these remaining few days of labor to capacity. But even the student up to his neck in examinations is aroused from that apathetic condition by the cheerful activity of the Democratic Club, whose busy members shame the moans of the weary by their energy. For has not presidential year rolled around, bringing balm to reporters, Democrats to Houston, and raisons d'etre to undergraduate political clubs...
...England is a reservoir of the most skilled labor, the most skilled direction, and the highest intelligence in the United States."?Herbert Hoover...
...value of such researches is more than theoretical. Many industries have found out through costly processes of trial and error that human efficiency is greatly affected by external conditions such as temperature, ventilation, and hours of labor. There is also a limit to the adaptability of the body, and the determination of its most productive field is of obvious value. While it is doubtful that the human mechanism can ever be calibrated on any uniform scale, the general principles of determining the activity for which each is best suited can add much to both the productivity and well-being...