Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body of laborers ought specifically to be included in this category, one would say, it is those whose business. It is to deliver milk. And yet the milk men in New York are on strike. There is no need to dilate upon the hardship which this is working. It is quite obvious that each a strike causes great suffering especially to the innocent by standers in the struggle: the children...
...must have time to be so. He cannot be while his life is one tedious examination after another. An ounce of confidence in the undergraduate, an ounce of trust in his power to educate himself, would do more for him and for education than heavy over-doses of the milk bottle lecture system. Incidentally, it would be a splendid act of faith. B. PRESCOTT...
...this scientific man declares, because the soil of the State has become exhausted, and college men have for that reason become a race of less vitality. If the tribe of weaklings at New Haven is to prosper, farmers must grow alfalfa to get phosphate of lime into the milk. Lime and legumes, says the expert, will go far toward redeeming Yale's athletic prowess. Thus is the intricacy of intercollegiate sport reduced to simple terms of molecules and fertilizers...
...room service approached perfection. The orchestra divided its attention between the lighter classics and "American music"--to wit, jazz,--a condition that seems to be common to France and England as well. Food at this hotel was plentiful and good, except that coffee was poor, there was very little milk and no cream, and colored goose grease in attractive pats but of villainous taste was served in place of butter. One of our business friends who owned a cow gave us some butter in a flat silver box made to be carried in the coat pocket. Sugar was short...
...more illustration bearing on the point but from a different angle, is this incident. In a repair gang of workers, the youngest apprentice had just quit work. "Public opinion" elected the next youngest employee to succed him in getting noonday milk for several workers. The young man in question performed the service with smiles and was obliged to "keep the change" sometimes as compensation. This milk vendor (or shall we say 100 percent worker?) was a Harvard student, but neither he nor his fellow workers remembered that at the time. CHAS. W. LYTLE. Director of Industrial Cooperation...