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... Bureau of Education or the Women's and Children's Bureau , Department of Labor , Washington , D. C. a short time ago the majority of boys and girls 4 STUDIES IN VOCATIONAL INFORMATION.
... Bureau of Education or the Women's and Children's Bureau , Department of Labor , Washington , D. C. a short time ago the majority of boys and girls 4 STUDIES IN VOCATIONAL INFORMATION.
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... women in considerable numbers , is that of social work . It offers opportunity for a wide range of ability and prepara ... Women's Bureau , Dept. of Labor . unaccustomed and for which they had been generally con- sidered 96 STUDIES IN ...
... women in considerable numbers , is that of social work . It offers opportunity for a wide range of ability and prepara ... Women's Bureau , Dept. of Labor . unaccustomed and for which they had been generally con- sidered 96 STUDIES IN ...
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... women in many places are now employed instead of men . The opportunities thus opened through a national crisis caused ... Women's Bureau , Dept. of Labor . minimum the necessity for muscular strength and for special skill WOMEN IN THE ...
... women in many places are now employed instead of men . The opportunities thus opened through a national crisis caused ... Women's Bureau , Dept. of Labor . minimum the necessity for muscular strength and for special skill WOMEN IN THE ...
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... women and the happiness of the home ; that for mothers to be engaged in activities outside the home frequently means ... Women's Bureau . Winning Women in Four Selected Cities . of the house are important items in their relation to 122 ...
... women and the happiness of the home ; that for mothers to be engaged in activities outside the home frequently means ... Women's Bureau . Winning Women in Four Selected Cities . of the house are important items in their relation to 122 ...
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... Women's Bureau No. 27. The Occupational Progress of Women . WEAVER , E. W. , Building a Career . WEAVER , E. W. , Profitable Vocations for Girls . WEAVER AND BLYLER , Profitable Vocations for Boys . WHITE - WILLIAMS FOUNDATION ...
... Women's Bureau No. 27. The Occupational Progress of Women . WEAVER , E. W. , Building a Career . WEAVER , E. W. , Profitable Vocations for Girls . WEAVER AND BLYLER , Profitable Vocations for Boys . WHITE - WILLIAMS FOUNDATION ...
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Page 24 - There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 24 - Play -up! play up! and play the game!" The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke: The gatling's jammed and the colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: "Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 31 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 19 - Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the Thought, The Thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel!
Page 34 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Page 34 - Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
Page 20 - Back of the hammer's drumming, Back of the cranes that swing, There is the eye which scans them Watching through stress and strain, There is the Mind which plans them — Back of the brawn, the brain.
Page 83 - Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market-place or tranquil room; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; "Of all who live, I am the one by whom "This work can best be done in the right way.
Page 147 - It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul Goodbye my darling, darling boy.
Page 93 - Agricultural implement factories Automobile factories Blast furnaces and steel rolling mills * Car and railroad shops Ship and boat building Wagon and carriage factories...