Word: loom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were undeniably low. And when the mill owners announced, early last April, that wages were to be cut by 10%, reducing the average wage to $17 a week, the workers were stirred to serious and active protest. Out of 27 mills walked some 27,000 operatives, spinners and weavers, loom fixers, slasher tenders. They left 3,000,000 spindles idle, and 50,000 looms...
Early in April, notices of a 10% wage-cut were posted in the textile mills of New Bedford, Mass. Out walked the workers. Last week, the eleventh of the strike, the signs were still posted. Some 22,000 mule-spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, carders, slasher-tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall...
However, though generals still loom before us who are not seniors, there remain finals to be passed. Now that the first one of five exams are over it is with renewed confidence that we face the remaining ones. When those are behind us, the desire will be to close our books until September. Doubtless we may be tempted to do some wellchosen reading. For those who are fortunate enough to come up for oral extensive reading is particularly helpful. In addition we suggest it for those who would like to see Radcliffe enter an intellectual contest. --Radcliffe Daily...
...silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output of the common loom. The fibres are passed through a carding machine, emerging as a broad loose band; then sewn crosswise by rows of tiny stitches; the crosswise direction giving great strength to the finished cloth. An inch of blanket cloth will be traversed by 16 to 20 rows of stitching, each stitch about...
Tomorrow Harvard and Yale clash in what promises to be one of the most closely contested meets in recent years. The "Its" loom unusually large and the difficulties of the dopester are correspondingly increased. Despite the dangers of prophesying about an issue so delicately balanced as that of tomorrow's meet the dope sheets are already appearing. A former Harvard captain gives Yale a three point advantage. But that, it appears, is only mathematics, and to a Harvard man such mathematics make very little appeal. One cannot fall to read between the lines that Harvard determination is worth far more...