Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...external debt; it handled the revenues from salt, petroleum and other monopolies, and from several duties. This financial support will go with Constantine's arrival, and without the occurrence of a miracle the King will never succeed in keeping Greece from bankruptcy--a task that has been difficult enough for three European nations...
...nephew's affections, but with our own. There is, in Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward and visible accidents to the essential Uncle Henry...
...unskilled worker only in so far that the people better off are able to stand a few weeks or months of unemployment while the other chap may be forced to the verge of charity by only a few days of joblessness. The unskilled laborer often cannot earn enough to save; the skilled laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker before the twenty-five dollars in my pocket was exhausted or else, according to a pledge, live the life of a hobe for six months, I have better comprehended...
...likely to assume that everything is all right for the workingmen if 500 are out of work in Pittsburg but there are 500 jobs open in Chicago. Contrary to the general opinion, this situation does not balance, for the unskilled man in Pittsburg is quite unlikely to have enough funds saved to permit him to go to Chicago. Even if he should let the employment agent pay his expense, he might reach that city only to find that he couldn't keep the job, and yet had no money with which to return to Pittsburg. For this reason the laboring...
...limited financial means keep the laborer in almost ever constant fear of losing his present job, if he is fortunate enough to have one. He is very sensitive as to the treatment he receives at the factory gate at the hands of the officers of the law and the factory officials. Moreover he considers it highly unjust that the foreman can fire him from his job for little or no reason and believes that in such a case he should have the right to bring the matter before a court of appeal...