Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mill a gallon is to be placed on the manufacture of near-beer and other cereal beverages. The tax was written into the bill at the request of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews, in order to enable him to have constant control and inspection of near-beer breweries to prevent them from selling high-power beer...
...Massachusetts mill interests, among other obstacles, are up against state laws which prescribe a 48-hour week and forbid the employment of women after 6:00 p.m. The Bay State textile men declare this is an impossible handicap for them to carry as against the freer conditions in North Carolina, and accordingly they are seeking a 54-hour working week from the Legislature. They claim that it is more expensive to operate a cotton mill in Massachusetts than in any of the other textile states, and that the local cotton industry has practically lost its markets to the South...
...being more important than the amount of money earned, Mr. Williams described his first job as a laborer. He was shovelling bricks, and had been one of the shovelling, gang for three weeks when the boss asked him if he would like to join the mill-rake gang...
...ideals and standards of the nineteenth century. Traditions, morals, and conventions have to bear the daily shafts of the lighter humorists, to say nothing of the sledge-hammer blows of H. L. Menken and the rest of the Grub Street fry on the American Mercury. Emerson, Carlyle, and Mill are no longer known at first hand. Writers of little depth have succeeded to popularity, if not to their places. It is quite likely that society has suffered from this. But who will say that it is the worse for having outgrown the sentimentality of the Victorians? For outside of Herold...
Most of the Negroes I know are farm and saw mill hands; hence I don't call them "Mr."-neither would I were they white hands. But I know a good number of Negro doctors and all of us say "Good morning, Dr. Howard," and "Good evening, Prof. Battle...