Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of English, although still second in popularity has been drawing less men for the past two years. Of the Class of 1932, 105 men or 13.3 per cent of the whole class are going to concentrate in English against 121 men of the Sophomore class...
...first-year race was even less of a contest, for the rough water conditions proved too much for the Tech oarsmen. Harvard jumped them at the start and drew away easily at a 30 stroke-per- minute clip, with their rivals trailing at a-28, until there were two lengths of open water between the boats at the Harvard Bridge. After the mile mark was passed, the engineers started catching crabs which proved fatal to their chances of winning, and a quarter of a mile from the finish the stroke man caught one which temporarily disabled the entire crew, although...
...spite of Writer Farrell, however, the new company sold its initial bond issue in something less than one hour and began its corporate existence under the most pleasing auspices. Representing a combination of I. G. Dyes, Standard Oil of New Jersey, National City Bank, International Acceptance and Ford Motors, the American I. G. Chemical Corp. included on its directorate Herren Doktoren Bosch, Schmitz and Greif of I. G. Dyes, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil, Chairman Mitchell and Warburg of the two Manhattan banking houses, and President Edsel Ford of Ford. What proportion of the new company's stock will...
...nearly six billions of production, New York paid less than one billion dollars in wages.* Thus New York workers made about $6.10 worth of merchandise for every dollar they received in salary. Inasmuch as the ratio of production to salary in such an extra-New York organization as General Electric Co. was 2.6 to 1 (TIME, April 22), compared to 6.1 to 1 for New York, it might appear that New York pays relatively low-even sweat shop-wages. But no doubt the fairer explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence...
...collected by 552,507 wage earners in 27,062 establishments, making the average weekly wage slightly less than...