Word: metes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week and settled a railway dispute by giving $15,000,000 additional wages each year to the 89,000 conductors and trainmen of the 50 Eastern railroads. And by so much, of course, they added to the yearly operating expenses of those lines and deprived investors of their mete of profits. Their decision (it went into effect Dec. 1) was the first made under the Watson-Parker Railroad Act, and, although obedience by employers and workers is optional, they have set a precedent for labor arguments. This Act, passed last year, provides a code duello for railroaders, every nicety...
...full amount of Italy's debt to them at 580 million pounds ($2,818,800,000) ; and considering that Britain is paying a total of $92,310,000 a year to the U. S., with nothing definitely in sight from France, Mr. Churchill undoubtedly felt impelled to mete out the heaviest practicable terms to Italy. Count Volpi, on the other hand, could point to the fact that the U. S. Debt Commissioners have granted proportionately much easier terms to Italy (TIME, Nov. 23) than those which they have thus far demanded from France. Count Volpi was therefore expected...
...members of the faculty. If students do not report violations and only faculty members do, then why should not faculty members do, then why should not faculty members decide the punishment of offenders? Why should the older men detect the infractions and then hand culprits over to students to mete out the penalty? A very considerable amount of time is required of undergraduates to dispose of persons who are detected by members of the faculty. If there is to be an Honor System it should be carried on wholly by students. If this is not done then faculty members might...
...poetry, the book reviews, and the contributors' column all add to the general deception. To mete out critical justice is far beyond the powers of a humble reviewer. I liked particularly the two little poems hidden within the book reviews of which this is the first...
...have some misgivings as to whether I am not boldly "rushing in where angels fear to tread" in the present instance. Yet the deep respect with which I regard the rights of Religion and Science, and my belief that there are others who also wish to mete out full justice, as far as possible, to the respective claims of these hoary old opponents prompt me to propose a truce, the Truce...