Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...agreement on a constitution providing usually for a board of arbitration. Executive control is left in the hands of the employer but subject to the limitations of the agreement and the decrees of the board. The representatives of the employees usually labor union officials, strive through the board to extent these limitations to in hibit all acts of the employer which the employees or their officials conceive to be of any disadvantage to themselves. The system resembles a constitutional monarchy...
...life, gathered in a dozen extended voyages widely scattered over the surface of the globe, and to still others, he appears as one of the greatest benefactors of the oldest university in America; while those who delve among ancient civilizations and primitive races might well be surprised at the extent of his poaching in their preserves." The author was assisted in compiling this splendid work by Professor Barrett Wendell, Mr. Samuel Henshaw, Sir John Murray and Mr. Q. A. Shaw. With portraits and other illustrations. Cloth. 8vo. Houghton, Mifflin Co. Published at $5.00 Special Price...
...general public, and especially the unhoused public, has a right to complain bitterly of conditions which have made building in New York, and to a considerable extent in other cities, dependent almost wholly on the situation of a "fight to the finish" between union labor on one side and on the other an organization which is doing its best to get rid of an exclusively unionized labor. We have blamed, with reason, the Bethlehem Steel Company for seeking to restrict the sale of its steel to "open shop" builders, but it must be acknowledged that the offence of these manufacturers...
...problems which beset all ranges of human experience and to touch life form every angle at every period of its development. For one who has once known the joys of the Christian ministry, there is no other form of human activity that can be compared with it in the extent of its influence or in the solid and enduring satisfactions that it yields...
Since the war the government has made every encouragement toward equitation instruction for the mounted branches of the service that have R. O. T. C. Units where facilities are available for caring for mounts; going eventually to the extent of supplying the small type horse suitable for polo. Yale has acquired approximately twenty of these mounts somewhat superior to the type available at the government purchase price. The additional funds going toward the purchase of the better type came mainly through the good efforts of an outside generous enthusiast...