Word: workday
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Like the professional poet he was, Yeats sat down at 11 each morning to write poetry, but his workday lasted only two hours, and he never finished more than a dozen lines...
...seniors can hardly be blamed if they gaze for the last time upon familiar surroundings with a brimming heart. Some of them are simply grifters who are sorry to see the end of a 10 to 2 workday. Some are intense individuals who strove joyfully for four years in a fascinating welter of ideas and knowledge. Most are probably a mixture of both types. All, it is safe to say, are a little touched by stage fright and resignation. The College is behind them. The world is closing...
...Stamford, Conn. (pop. 65,000), as always at noon on a workday, factory whistles tootled and bells rang. But on this sunny day they told more than the time. Men & women left their factory benches and marched toward Atlantic Square, the city's center. Clerks left the stores and joined the marchers. Butchers, bartenders and waitresses doffed their aprons and walked off their jobs...
...Scapegoats. What war-worn Germans knew with terrible reality from Goebbels' speech and subsequent decrees was one crushing fact: the last vestiges of normal life were about to disappear. Theaters, cinemas, cabarets and concert halls, where men & women could forget a while, would be closed. The twelve-hour workday would become standard. The age limit for women required in industry would be raised from 45 to 50. Sixteen-year-old boys would be sent to the front after 60 days of training. Doctors were advised to be chary in issuing certificates of labor exemption for health reasons...
Ecrie is the world to described Warren House, in whose labyrinth of hallways, trap doors, secret stairways, and weirdly built rooms the heads of the English department make their workday nest...