Word: white-collar
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...motion for the first time. Every night was like Saturday night. People filled the Broadways and Main Streets, crowded streetcars, buses, factories, restaurants, post offices, stood in line at bars, theaters, nightclubs, bowling alleys. In their tin hats, they worked together in San Francisco shipyards: ex-college professors, white-collar workers, women, Chinese, Italians, Negroes, WAAC uniforms marched two abreast down the narrow sidewalks of Des Moines; WAVE uniforms swished neatly up & down Stillwater, Okla. Soldiers packed the nation's hotels, spilled over into boardinghouses, slept in railroad stations, pool halls, sometimes tramped the streets all night...
...carrying this help-wanted ad to lure white collar men to the railroads-to tamp ballast, replace ties, hoist the heavy rails. As war cargoes ride the rails and troopships wait at the railheads, workers on the roadbeds are needed more and more. But before it advertised for white-collar hands, Southern Pacific cautiously experimented...
Sayre spent four months working out a usable basic Spanish and writing the script. He found that the average Mexican laborer has about 500 words at his command, a white-collar worker some 2,000. With some advice from Harvard's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong ("Basic English") Richards, he boiled the Spanish course down to a working vocabulary. This 13-week transcribed series is available to any radio station...
...basic cause of the "urban insanity zones," researchers conclude, is the social disorganization of city life. Great numbers of foreign-born and their children have lost their old cultures and have not yet become integrated in U.S. life. In rooming-house districts, white-collar workers are isolated and lonely amid impersonal throngs. The number of unmarried men, socially and biologically at loose ends, increases toward a city's core. And as urbanization increases, the group control of a homogeneous society-symbolized by the U.S. back fence-disappears. Standards of group and personal behavior break down together when the anonymous...
Head Boy Flynn, Warner's white-collar Tarzan, leads the Boys on a game of follow-the-leader that includes a ride...