Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today, and those of the workmen in its employ there is no fundamental community. Our economy is founded on price, and the role of the producer is, even under normal conditions, to keep wages as low as the traffic will bear, while the aim of the worker is to push them as high as he can. Even a small depression in the price level creates a sharp problem in that balance; and when, as is happening today, the producer finds he can make no such concessions as the workers demand, a crisis in the labour market results. Until the abolition...
...magnanimous writing of introductions by academic bigwigs of the Harvard faculty to push the books of their understudies always impresses us. But this close cooperation is not always rewarded. An attractive green book in the Widener Reading Room, in the History 56 shelf bears witness to the way in which the patronizing statements of a full-professor may return to plague and mortify him. We quote from Professor C.H. Haring...
...only one case in which a Nazi assailant had been punished (by a fine of 50 marks. $17.50). The Velz case in Dusseldorf last week decided Secretary of State Cordell Hull to instruct Professor Dodd to go the limit in demanding satisfaction. To back him up with the potent push of U. S. public opinion, excerpts were published from all 27 affidavits, 19 of them assaults. It was revealed that three days after President Roosevelt's inauguration a U. S. citizen, Mrs. Max Schussler, was molested in her Berlin home by Storm Troopers who forced her to stand naked...
Worcester Academy squeezed out a 6-0 victory over the Harvard Freshman football team in a hard fought contest on the Worcester gridiron Saturday. A 15 yard penalty and a 30 yard pass started the march which led to a touchdown in a final push by Greenberg...
...Under your wise leadership, may Harvard be a preeminent focus for true scholarship, and patient endeavor to push back a little the veil of mystery that everywhere surrounds us. Here may inspired teachers convince the best of the aspiring youth of this distracted country that man cannot live by bread alone: that in a just estimate of the real values of life, the spiritual far outweighs the material...