Word: nineteenth
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...themselves able to compete with the cheaper foreign labor. Thus they will have nothing to lose by free trade and much to gain in cheaper food for their laborers and better international commercial relations. The present situation is similar to that of Great Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century when the industrial interests clamored for free trade and the agriculturists sponsored protection...
...truth the situation that produced the strike bears close resemblance to the industrial evils that succeeded the advent of the factory system in the nineteenth century. By failing to pay a living wage to the heads of families the Passaic mills had drawn women and minors to them. A law designed to remedy this had been suspended. And it was the refusal of the manufacturers to allow their employes to organize that precipitated the walkout...
...perhaps a great deal in that. In my own work I am inclined to adhere more to the conventional forms of meter and rhyme. I am proud to say that I am not one of those who thinks Tennyson beneath contempt or is bored at mention of the nineteenth century tury...
This situation exposes a fatal defect in the constitution of the League. By forming a council of the Entente powers the Versailles diplomats sought to perpetuate in modified form the six-power system, which had preserved the European balance of power during the nineteenth century. This arrangement has never been very satisfactory, but neither is increasing indefinitely the size of the council a feasible plan. Abolishment of the council altogether is a step which has not been contemplated. Yet such a plan, by placing the members upon an equal footing, would free the Assembly from the dominance...
...Leech; M. J. Swanson paid $190 for a book on corpulency by one William Wadd, which contains an autograph of Daniel Lambert (his weight was 739 pounds); Maurice Hoog, dealer, paid $1,800 for a collection of 1,200 engraved trade-cards and billheads of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries...