Search Details

Word: tradesmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...defense have assembled, the jury is chosen and the judge has made his opening statement. Again the lines of battle in the class war are sharply drawn; the zero hour is about to strike, and once more the nation will listen to the citizens of Herrin-farmers, strikebreakers, tradesmen, victims of the mob, union miners-as they reconstruct the massacre in which 22 strikebreakers and mine guards lost their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Herrin Horror Retold | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

Five centuries ago the decimal system of Arabic numerals was struggling for recognition. In 1400 it was generally known through out Europe, and used in most scientific and astronomical work, but many tradesmen continued to keep their accounts in Roman numerals until about 1550, and monasteries and colleges till about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPARE THE ROD | 12/19/1922 | See Source »

There are many tradesmen about the Square who can persuade all the students to pay something of what they owe, and even some to pay all that they owe; but there is only one man who, during the last thirty-four years, has induced all of his debtors to pay all of their debts. That man is Charles F. Mason, Bursar of the University. Now comes his resignation after a long period of service during which his name has been impressed upon many generations of Harvard men. To us he, like the poor has appeared to be always with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. MASON | 11/30/1921 | See Source »

...kings who masquerade as cooks, of tailors who strut 'as kings, of bearded astrologers and flame-spouting dragons." Critics have pronounced it as her best' work since "The Wardhouse Ward," and said that it is pantomime as pantomime would be written were its librettists artists instead of dramatic tradesmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELECT "THE DRAGON" FOR WINTER PRODUCTION | 11/2/1920 | See Source »

...awarded at the final debate last night in the Music Building to L. Brentano '18. Six men, chosen from the preliminary contest held two weeks ago, discussed either side of the question, "Resolved, that the French Government should take by taxation all excess profits made by French manufacturers and tradesmen because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRENTANO WON PASTEUR MEDAL | 11/27/1917 | See Source »

Previous | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | Next