Word: time-clock
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...been a long time since grey Gotham saw a labor leader who actually punched a time-clock and went to work in a uniform. Abe Stark, Brooklyn's substitute for mayor, set the familiar monolith into action. The City of New York slapped an injunction on the Motormen, and threatened Theodore Loos with jail...
Your "strong and stable U.S." strikes me as typical smug Timery! All your readers are not thriving farmers, satisfied businessmen and relaxed Republicans. Neither are most Americans ... I would be very much interested in a feature article on "Our Forgotten People," the time-clock punchers, housewives and oldsters in the tragedy of America -the aging big city...
Against this powerful threat Ulen can only hope for a reversal of the time-clock evidence...
Other students devote themselves, equally barrenly, insofar as learning is concerned, to their studies. Such students, Stephen Leacock has observed, "all go humping together over the hurdles with the professor chasing them with a set of 'tests' and 'recitations,' 'marks' and 'attendance,' the whole apparatus obviously copied from the time-clock of the businessman's factory. This process is what is called 'showing results' ...It circumscribes the latitude of mind which is the real spirit of learning...
Business was rudely interrupted however by the explosion of the smoke bomb and the sight of three men rushing headlong for the back "time-clock" door of the establishment...