Word: white-collar
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...prove that equality of opportunity is a myth, that there is a "conspiracy of forces that tends to keep certain groups more or less permanently submerged." It found the chances were 3 to i that the son of a laborer will not rise to a job on the white-collar level...
...sign tacked up last fortnight on the Anglican parish church in Kingston-on-Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...
...more coats of white enamel. On this the artist paints as if it were canvas, using pigments of powdered enamel mixed with a special oil. The panel is then fired a fourth time, producing a highly glazed, virtually indestructible mural. This was never done before because no way had been found of retaining colors through firing with anything but approximate fidelity. Of 13 selected designs and sample panels in this medium displayed in last week's show, two vivid abstractions by Balcolm Greene and Eugene Morley and a panel of four decidedly white-collar gentlemen by Elizabeth Oldswed showed...
...students entertain the belief that there will be a reception line of prospective employers awaiting them with flattering offers of jobs on Commencement Day. They know that if they get any offer of a job at all, it likely will be of the blue-denim rather than of the white-collar variety. And they'll accept that blue-denim job in the hope that some day times may be better and their college training may help them to advance...
...industrial centres. This fact was last week grim news for many a slovenly business clerk, for Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, gave intimations of a new Nazi plan: to have Government agents comb the personnel of banks, business houses, department stores, newspapers, and to ship all white-collar workers "not fitted for commercial employment" out to work as common laborers in factories and fields...