Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour schedule of men laboring in the bowels of the earth. . . . You cavalierly now propose a 60-day freeze. . . . Your proposal ... is sheer folly and empty platitude. . . . You now, at the last hour of the last day yield to the blandishments and soothing siren voice of the operators and seek to place the United Mine Workers of America between Scylla and Charybdis. This course, we refuse to follow...
...idea spread. In Nova Scotia alone there were 35,000 fishermen, farmers, loggers, miners who could neither read nor write. In a year and a half, Dr. Coady's self-help doctrine ("seek, and ye shall find") had sprouted 1,000 adult study clubs with 10,000 members. With adult education came co-op stores, farm and fish producer groups. Impressed, St. F.X. set up a special extension department to carry on the work, put Dr. Coady at the head of it. The Dominion Government picked Dr. Coady to organize the badly exploited Maritime fishermen, some of whom...
Commuters, he said, who were unlucky in the recent draw for Yard lodging, should not seek to evade parental supervision for truancy with hotel space in the Cambridge clink. They should, however, purchase a ticket from the friendly cop on the corner...
Although the pressure is off the Administration for the first time in a year, Provost Buck declared that the University would continue to extend itself as long as considerable numbers of eligible veterans contine to seek admission...
Gruber, who is his country's Foreign Minister and was a leader of the resistance movement during the war, has recently achieved prominence by his handling of the Southern Tyrol hand-over in the Paris Peace Conference. He is now in the U. S. to seek Austrian admission to UN membership, a move which has been seconded by Secretary Byrnes...