Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collective agreements rest upon moral force rather than legal compulsion." Neither side wants law to back it up. Exception: wages (but only wages) in the weaving section of the cotton textile industry; in 1934, both sides sought an Act of Parliament which froze rates they had already collectively agreed upon. Cause: chiseling by unorganized employers and weavers...
Having damned "$30 Every Thursday" as a "short cut to Utopia" and "a fantastic financial scheme" only last fortnight, last week President Roosevelt - rather than of fend 800,000 California voters and a likely new "liberal" Senator - gracefully observed that the people of California have a perfect right to try any financial scheme they choose, however unsound...
...shows that more conceptions occurred in April, the first month of spring, and December, the Eskimos' visiting season, than in any other months. His conclusions: 1) whatever sexual debility may have been observed by early explorers is probably due to famine during the lone, cruel winter, rather than lack of light: 2) "it seems unwise to consider the possibility of the existence of definitely limited seasons of reproduction in other human groups . . . [since] much of the published material available is based on inadequate data...
...wife at Meriden, Conn., hard by the threatened river. Broadcast last week on Conductor Howard Barlow's CBS "Everybody's Music" program was Composer Gerschefski's contribution to the great Connecticut cause: a "Save the Saugatuck" Symphony. Subtitles of the flashily orchestrated symphony's four rather noisy movements: 1) Natural Ruggedness; 2) Robot Controlled Precision without Escape; 3) Natural Flow; 4) Dynamite Accomplished Perversion and Artificiality of Every Description...
Because her boat from Australia was delayed and she had a date to sing in Los Angeles, Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad boarded the Japanese Tatsuta Maru at Honolulu rather than wait for a U. S. boat. When the Tatsuta Maru got to San Francisco, polite customs officials sent a launch to meet her, quickly issued clearance papers in the "stream," whisked her to a plane. Department of Commerce officials, not so polite, fined Mme Flagstad the customary $200 for traveling between U. S. ports on a foreign ship. Also fined the same amount each were her husband, her accompanist...