Word: latters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice spin over the Housatonic course which is but a few miles from New Haven. Charlie Hart, the University boat-rigger, who has been in New Haven since the first of the week, has completed the refitting of a Yale shell with oarlock riggers in place of the latter's tholepin arrangement. On Thursday and Friday there will be stiff workouts both morning and afternoon with a short run scheduled for Saturday morning...
...third inning with two men on bases, was one of the longest hits on Soldiers Field this season, reaching the infield of the University diamond before coming to a stop. M. P. Davis and E. S. Hardell were the leaders of the Freshman attack, each getting three hits, the latter's including a triple. T. J. Meehan, with a three-base hit, and R. B. Shaw, with a double, were the other 1921 players to get extra-base hits. As both teams got ten hits, the batting honors were very evenly divided...
Possible abuses in the operation of the act have been carefully and wisely safeguarded. The grasping employer cannot hold the laborer to his ill-paid job by threat of imprisonment or fine if the latter ceases work. Persons temporarily unemployed by reason of differences with employers, as the law phrases it, are not included in its provisions. The law-makers, however, have not exempted the so-called "idle rich." The receipt of income from property or other source is not considered the equivalent of "gainful employment." Students are the only other class of citizens excluded from the law's operation...
...production of the modern industrial world consists of two classes of articles: essentials and luxuries. Before the war the latter were very common. They are now becoming more scarce, as nations realize that they must economize and live on the bare necessaries of existence. The war has made economy the watch-word of human actions. The luxuries and non-essentials of society must be curtailed so that raw materials will not be drawn away from more useful channels of war production and so that labor will not be engaged in producing articles of no immediate value. The complexity of modern...
Several of the plants, upon taking new and untrained men into their employ, are offering these beginners an opportunity to learn a job first and then start working at it. The Remington Arms, Union Metallic Cartridge Company, for example, has established a training school for new men, where the latter are taught a trade, and after they have completed a thorough course at this school they go to work at the machines...