Word: woking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women are living under worse conditions in this country than in any other country in the world. It is time that men woke up to this fact...
Millions, members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, went to sleep on Oct. 13, thinking it was Sept. 30. They woke up to find the new day Oct. 14. The Gregorian Calendar (used in the rest of Christendom) had been substituted for their more ancient Julian. The one was instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, in 1582 A. D., the other by Julius Caesar...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Hollywood and its lovely morons spitted upon a rapier of keen satire, in this history of Merton, the grocery-clerk, who dreamed of being an eight-reel-tragic-feature-film and woke to find himself the most popular low comedian in America...
...presidential award of higher wages eventually satisfied the demands of the mine workers and resulted as well in a great boom in the coal industry, during which speculation and profiteering were carried on in gigantic proportions. But in the next year, 1921, the jubilee ended, the coal business woke up with a headache, and a period of such depression ensued during the entire year, most of the miners only worked about eighty days and the average earnings came to about five hundred dollars. In the non-union fields, on the other hand, wages and prices were dropped. Naturally West Virginia...