Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This hold-up of the nation, -for it can be described as nothing else-is the most unreasonable measure ever undertaken by American labor. Never before in this country have the workers in a national industry struck for less than an eight-hour day. The professed aim of the American Federation of Labor had been the adjusting basis. A five-day week means cutting down the hours of operation still further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars...
...Weighing less than our Freshman team, the University of Virginia eleven averages only 165 pounds. It is the lightest team that Virginia has ever sent North, and the lightest that the Crimson eleven has met this fall...
...from home needs even more than the usual support. A real live cheering section at the Princeton game will increase the team's chances of success by a great margin. To date, only about one hundred and fifty applications for tickets at Princeton have been handed in, of which less than forty are in the cheering section. The man outside the cheering section is of no great help; he is an interested spectator, not a rooter...
...With less effort than in the Worcester game, the 1923 eleven piled up a score of 26-0 against the light Groton team Saturday at Groton. Neither side, except in the last few minutes of the play, showed a tendency to fight hard, and the game was won, as last Saturday, by the superior system of attack and defense of the yearling team...
...Before the war, approximately 1,000,000 immigrants a year were entering the United States. In concluding, he prophesied that within a period of two to five years America will again see a large stream of immigration towards her shores, made up of more French, Belgians and Germans, and less Russian Jews and other Slavs...