Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Things That Breathe. Albert felt a sense of deep obligation to those who were not as well off as he. One day, when he won a friendly wrestling match with a bigger schoolmate, the loser complained: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week the way you do, I'd be as strong as you are." From that time on, Albert's broth stuck in his throat. He was punished repeatedly because he refused to accept such advantages as an everyday overcoat, new gloves, or leather shoes, which poorer boys did not have...
...toying with the idea, but last week, at a National Education Association teachers' conference at Durham, N.H., some 500 of them came right out in the open. Why not pare vacation down to one month and keep the public schools open all year around. It would be one way to boost the salary of teachers, who now generally get paid for only nine months of work. The nation's 25 million public-school kids, it was admitted, would possibly need a bit of persuading...
...way home, I passed the appliance stores, brightly lighted, some of them with television sets in the windows as a lure for the people to come in and look around. But the people stood on the sidewalk and watched the ball game through the window...
...three-way purchasing agreement between G.M., U.S. Rubber and itself, thus freezing out competing suppliers, e.g., G.M. had at one time agreed to buy at least 50% of its rubber products from U.S. Rubber. This, it is charged, was later revised upward, with different G.M. divisions agreeing to take different percentages of U.S. Rubber products...
...three-way selling system of "secret rebates and preferential prices" that hurt outsiders buying similar products from the defendants at higher prices...