Word: normal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Employee representation is the natural and normal development of large scale industry. When industrial units were of relatively much smaller size, contact between man and master was direct, friendly and close. The employer-employee relationship was simple. As industry expanded with thousands of factories employing from half a thousand to ten or twenty thousand men and women, this contact was destroyed. The distance between employer and manager increased. Employer and manager became separated. They could not do business together efficiently because they had no adequate machinery to express the real relationship which necessarily underlies industrial work...
...including substitution of national for district wage systems; extensive payment by result, bonuses, and price fixing without experience. Mr. Clay said one of the most disastrous results of the war to the stability of industrial conditions in England was the severing by the official control of wages of the normal contact between the trade unions and the employers...
...winds, or wake with vision of the street of dreams" said the prologue to the picture. And so they were. There characters seemed at first glance to be real people, acting in a real Manuel in real situations: yet they were not real people, but characterizations, showing not their normal reaction to various occurrences, but rather the thoughts and ideas in their hearts. Indeed, tow of the characters, the preacher of the streets, and the wandering musician were purely allegorical; the one representing, with his prayers and hymns, the Good Influence; the other, with his violin music, suggestive...
...coast colleges have the advantage of rapid communication with the world and enjoy other facilities of western civilization, but they suffer from unfavorable influences which characterize life along the coast in the Levant. The interior colleges are almost free from these influences, are in contact with normal native life, and have an unequalled opportunity for bringing influence to bear upon it directly...
Definitely, the ideal of the college is not to make Americans or semi-Americans, but to train native leaders for the country of their birth. Therefore, instead of attempting to segregate students and impress them with foreign ideals, they are left in contact with their normal environment so that there may be a continual interplay and progressive and natural adjustment between new truth and the old life. The college is content to introduce germinal ideas, expecting them to become dynamic in natural, indigenous ways. It would be of little benefit to Turkey to turn out emigrants to America, men whose...