Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heaven. They were promptly taken to Yale, where they entered the Harkness Quadrangle in great pomp, being drawn on a two wheel cart by a team of oxen. These stones are said to have historic associations with the founding of the college, having been used in the mill in which was ground the corn eaten by the first president of Yale. The historian further informs us that he who has never tasted "pone" bread made from the corn-meal ground in the old-fashioned water mills has missed the greatest of body-building foods, the food upon which throve...
...etchings by Seymour Haden, the "Shere Mill Pond" and "Sunset in Ireland" are particularly beautiful impressions of favorite plates of this famous English surgeon-artist...
What is employee representation? The President's Industrial Conference of a year of so ago defined it as the organization of the relationship between employer, and employee. It is precisely that. It is government in the factory, mine or mill. It is a structure of conference committees which, in the best prevailing practice, are composed in equal numbers of elected representatives of the management. It is an organization, local to the particular concern in which it is set up, whose function and purpose is to so correlate the mutual interests of employee and manager as to produce the most harmonious...
...mill building Paper- mill Machinery, situated in Central Germany, represented the old regime where the manager's house was built into the mill, and the courtyard was laid out as a garden, with walls of Southern exposure supporting wall-growth fruit trees. The Manager's office was more homelike than office-like, and we were offered light refreshments, and the Manager's automobile placed at out disposal for a forty-mile trip where railroad connections were poor. The departments of this mill that were visited were in good condition and seemed to be running on the day of our visit...
...another very large mill in the same line near Cologne we did not get beyond the office, but found that the best that could be done on a machine on which we asked a proposal was nine months on account of prior orders. The chief owner of this mill, together with his brother who spoke English, spent the day with us, and took us to two writing-paper mills where their machinery could be Seen. Here also we were treated with the utmost courtesy...