Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satisfying speech traced the Association's history from its founding at Saratoga, N. Y., by a small group of men who saw that the nation's legal thought would need guidance; mentioned the understandings reached at conferences between the Association and the American Federation of Labor, looking toward the settlement of interstate industrial disputes; praised the Federal Radio Commission for "diligence and intelligence...
...driven, 30 miles into the earth's crust, to tap a store of heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could obviously not be dug by human labor. But an eroding alloy of aluminum would do it, melted by electricity, circulated by hot air at a pressure of more than 250,000 Ibs. to the square inch. That is about the pressure of the earth's rocky crust 30 miles down, a pressure under which the friction...
...days does Felix Delia Vecchia labor and do all that he has to do. On the seventh he does some more. Mr. Delia Vecchia operates a taxi service (four cabs) from headquarters near the Red Bank, N. J., railway station...
...harsh penal system of the day. He meant to proclaim the Christian doctrine that all men are brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires...
...humorous upper lip drew down when he said that. He was obviously temporizing, playing a part, and he is skillful and prompt at playing parts when necessary. The overnight discovery of a quorum last week recalled Mr. Vauclain's tactics when, at the start of a rail strike, labor delegates visited the 25,000 non-union workers in his "little foundry." In 20 minutes he had jailed all the delegates...