Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poor John Coolidge. The woods and the fields beckon, the girls buzz around, the water is right for swimming. But these things mean nothing to him. He flunked French, and this is his vacation...
...Prugh, national chairman of the Prohibition Party, in a letter to Mr. Andrews: I am frank to say that I have been unable to convince myself that "the acid test of enforcement," inaugurated by the Administration is a genuine effort to make good, but do not mean for a moment to question your own sincerity as to your part...
...years of the oil industry, it has always had a 12-hour day. The change to the 8-hour from the 12-hour day in the producing fields will mean, since work is continuous, the employment of three shifts instead of two shifts of men. The hourly rate of pay was increased simultaneously with the reduction of hours, so that those employes who formerly received $12 for 12 hours will receive $10 for 8 hours. The change in hours and pay was agreed to by the employes...
...last, if passed by the respective unions, will be a move of great significance ; for it will mean that whenever there is a dispute between any one of the unions and a second party, the alliance of unions, embracing millions of workers, will hold the general public up by a national strike...
Oratory: "A good House of Commons style is much applauded and . . . is a high accomplishment. But it abounds in jargon . . . consecrated phrases and sentences which mean nothing but occupy the time while the House is emptying or filling. . . . 'Mr. Speaker, Sir, the honourable member who has just sat down has charged my Right Honourable friend, the President of the Board of Trade, with having misrepresented the speech which the honourable and learned gentleman, the member for Colne, made earlier in debate. Sir, as I shall presently prove, the honourable member himself is guilty of misrepresenting the .speech...