Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...first step is an 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...
...successful they can then be tried elsewhere, and the nine years' success of this experiment now becomes a challenge to forward looking workers and employers who want to take the first step in the journey to industrial peace...
...round of shadow boxing at one quarter speed. They try out all their punches, ducks and feints against imaginary opponents. Following this is a round of shadow boxing in which the footwork is given most of the attention. This is done at full speed to enable them to step around lightly and not become flat-footed in their style...
True to their pledge to put the country on a peace time basis the Republican majority took the first step by repealing almost all of the strictly war-time legislation. The resolution, which was adopted by a unanimous vote in the House, declares that acts which owe their existence to a state of war shall be "administered as if the present war terminated on the date when this resolution becomes effective." Trading with the enemy, Liberty Loan enactments and those connected with the War Finance Corporation are the chief exceptions to the laws that will go, and should have gone...
With the poetry there is always the delicious humor. The logic of the Queen, the Princess's self-sufficient, practical step-mother, is not more unanswerable than Gilbertian when she suggests the way for the girl to escape the doom foretold by the stars--that she is to be ate and devoured by a scaly Green Dragon from the North. Marriage, argues the Queen, is the way of escape. Dragons from time immemorial have eaten King's daughters but not Kings' wives. "In all the inventions made by poets did any of you ever hear of a Dragon swallowing...