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Word: worke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Textile mills in the Carolinas run all night. After sunrise, the mill siren gives a blast to warn the day workers throughout the village that it soon will be time to go to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Blood | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...make a speech at the mill gates. He and several deputies had been up all night, warned by the mill officials of impending trouble. Across the street in front of the postoffice was a crowd of night shift workers bent on persuading the day shift not to go to work. The picketers were union people, men, women and children, members of United Textile Workers (subsidiary of the A. F. of L.). They had heard that, as the result of a strike last summer (TIME, Sept. 9), the company was transferring all union workers to the night shift. Then the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Blood | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Work Done. Last week the U. S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...moron who shoulders uncomplainingly the unpleasant tasks of life. If any steps are taken to prevent the reproduction of morons, many lawyers, doctors, parliamentarians, preachers and Congressmen would have to go to work. . . . As a rule the ordinary moron works. . . .. The mass of the world's most important and also most disagreeable work is done by morons and others closest to the line. ... If we had no morons, it would seriously interfere with the paving of streets, building of sewers, running of railroads, factories and other industries and also raise havoc with church attendance. . . . The moron as a rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Darrow's Morons | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Rifles and machine guns on the prison wall and in the warden's darkened house kept up a blistering barrage into the cellhouse windows as the priest went to the building's very entrance and laid the charge to blast an entrance. The ignition battery did not work. Father O'Neil returned for another heavy load of dynamite, ran in, laid it, ran back. Danny Daniels was seen at the cellhouse window trying to shoot the priest just before the explosion shattered all remaining windows in the neighborhood, blew men's hats off and buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Danny Daniels' Party | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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