Word: length
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...presentation and tabulation of figures which can be used everywhere. In this way only can an exact comparison of wages be made. For purely economic purposes use can be made of "positions"--that is, using as a theoretic unit the laborer who works at standard wages for a standard length of time. For social purposes however, there can be no theory in the compilation of figures and we must consider the number of laborers and their time of labor strictly according to truth. When some uniform system has been used for a number of years--then and only then will...
...less length Professor Royce discusses the touch of idealism and poetic sensitiveness of the Californian nature that comes from daily contact with the wonderful richness and beauty of the country...
...attempt is being made at the football games this year to keep any record on the scoring board of the length of time to play. The number of downs, which can easily be kept in one's head, and the number of yards to gain, which can usually be ascertained merely by looking at the linesmen, are both kept constantly in view of the spectators; but as regards the time to play, not even the incomplete recording practiced formerly has been attempted. One might argue, and with good reason, that if the time could not be recorded any better than...
Although this may seem a trivial point to discuss at such length, when one considers the importance of the time to play in football games, and the ease with which it could be recorded on the scoring-board, he cannot fall to see some ground for the stand here taken...
...small villages along the coast, which are composed of houses, each shared by two families. The houses themselves are constructed of driftwood and are covered with a thick layer of turf to render them air-tight. The entrance to these houses is an underground tunnel about thirty feet in length, which finally emerges through the floor of the one room. The furniture consists of a sleeping bench about six feet wide running the length of one wall, and a few racks for hanging clothes. The only other things that could be called furniture are two soapstone lamps...