Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundreds of years old. To hold that machine operators cannot be organized on the same basis is due to ignorance of the job itself. From the standpoint of organizing it is expedient and lucrative, but to say that a toolmaker or first-class grinder should concern himself with the plight of his union brother who is pushing a truck is taking a pretty general viewpoint. This is one of the dangers of the industrial union as far as strikes are concerned...
...clock--The secretaries find themselves touched by the animals' plight. After consultation, they erect a shelter of two umbrellas on the top step to cover the homeless canines, who grin in gratitude...
Harvard social service workers, to whom much due credit flows continually, should abandon their lines of settlement houses for a moment and consider the plight of the unfortunate children in their own backyard. Not only does Harvard at present do nothing for the urchins of Allston, that part of the city of Boston which lies under the shadow of the stadium, but by her presence Harvard actually hurts them...
...many painful autums at least one person has pondered the plight of the friendless Freshman who reaches the Yard with a bag in one hand and shaking fingers in the other. It is hard for the popular Andoverite or Grotonian to understand the feeling of complete, bitter solitude which assails countless new students the first few days of their college career. The Union has tried to mitigate this condition by providing an excellent buffet supper on registration day, served by waitresses with motherly smiles. What with the awful immensity of Memorial Hall and the complexities of the registration card, University...
Seamen may strike when a ship is docked in the home port. But once a ship has sailed, to strike is mutiny. In Montevideo last week the Algic's Captain Joseph Gainard reported his plight to the U. S. Vice Consul, who went aboard, harangued the mutineers for an hour. Still they refused to unload ship. So Captain Gainard and the Vice Consul shot a cable to the owners...