Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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During the past decade in several branches of the garment-making industries of New York and Chicago, certain principles for the adjustment of conflicting interests with employes by legal methods have been experimented with. This experience has suggested certain ideas and possibilities interesting to those who appreciate the growing danger of leaving the settlement of employer-employee controversies to the arbitrament of industrial warfare and who understand how, in other human relations, the crude method of forces has been superseded by the legal method...
Referring to his past experience as a lecturer, Mr. Stefansson declared that he had always found it necessary to describe a few facts concerning the Arctic, about which the general public is in complete ignorance. "For instance," he declared, "it is possible to go more than 500 miles farther north on the Atlantic side than on the Pacific, due to the fact that the Gulf Stream penetrates much farther north than does the Japan Current in the Pacific, and as a result the open water extends much nearer the Pole. For this reason it means nothing to ask an Arctic...
...school geographies are usually incorrect on this point. Greenland, however, is an exception to the rules as it has a heavy rainfall and a high altitude, both of which factors tend to produce heavy glaciation. Nevertheless, on the great Canadian Archipelago there is no trace of glaciation for the past thousand years...
...that they may in turn carry on the traditions of sound learning and enlarge the world's knowledge of nature and of man. Its ideal, it has been said, is "to develop Harvard as one of the great centres of the world's scholarship, conserving the learning of the past and constantly widening the bounds of knowledge...
...workingman is usually in constant fear of losing his job, he is inclined to go too far in enjoying the unusual and pleasant situation created for him by exceptional conditions such as in the past war. Realizing that he may be forced back into his old job and compelled to sit tight in a short time, he makes the most of his opportunity by moving from factory to factory and trying job after job so that he can pick out the best position while he has the chance...