Word: striking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Musical Review has uniformly escaped with fewer shafts sticking to its ribs than the others--but that is mainly because its reviewers have been too generous to strike an infant. Generally its reviews have been inconsequential because of the tendency of its critics to assume a fatherly attitude, and try to teach it to lisp. If any one desires to know an illustration, he may read H. K. Moderwell's review of a recent number...
...roofs are now completed except for the slating, which will be done in the next two weeks if the weather conditions are favorable. Nearly all the windows have been set and the temporary heat turned on, so that the plastering work can go forward rapidly. A two weeks' strike among the plasterers, because of a misunderstanding as to the terrazzo work caused considerable delay on the inside construction. Within the next three weeks the work will begin on the interior finish...
British labor has learned from the great railway strike and the nation-wide coal strike of recent years, that a mere strike for higher wages, even where successful, confers no lasting gain on the working class, since the coal operators and the railway managers promptly raise rates and prices to several times the amount of the increase. The present aim of the working class is to bring all its influence, by striking and by political pressure on Parliament, to bear on the nationalization of coal mines and railways. Public ownership of tramways in London, as a first step, has been...
...show the rapid march of events in England, Mr. Lansbury described the Dublin transport workers' strike. It has marked as important and as definite an epoch in the industrial history of England as did the great dock-workers' strike of the nineties, which heralded the birth of the new unionism. Its effect has been to make Catholics and Ulstermen, in Belfast and Dublin, forget their religious and racial animosities, and join in the struggle for industrial emancipation...
...game of today, with its forward passes and its other vagaries o new football, places a premium on individual excellence and minimizes the value of team-work. In acquiring points team effort is no longer required. Once with in striking distance of the goal the team does not strike. Instead, it calls upon its expert kicker and useless effort is avoided. Ten husky warriors stand aside and permit one man, who possesses a peculiarly skillful foot to do the work that eleven men would have done in the old days...