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Example sentences for "foremen"

Lexicographically close words:
forelock; forelocks; foreman; foremanship; foremast; forementioned; foremost; foremothers; foren; forenamed
  1. I'd like to catch one of my foremen out on the works some time--I wouldn't know whether to fire him or double his wages!

  2. But I laid it to outside thieves--never supposed one of my own foremen was double-crossing me.

  3. On the same day Angus Moraine received word from Monica's order, "small hell" reigned among his foremen the day.

  4. Employers and foremen treat deaf workmen as they do hearing workmen.

  5. Employers and foremen are glad to have deaf workmen who can show that they have the ability to do the work expected of them, and take them on a basis equal to that of the hearing.

  6. By the time that he had exhausted the patience of the foremen of the works near Woburn, he had come to the conclusion that an oven was the proper means of applying heat to his compound.

  7. The foremen testify that he was a great plague to them, and smeared their works with his sticky compound; but, though they all regarded him as little better than a troublesome lunatic, they all appear to have helped him very willingly.

  8. Special Shop Foremen and Foremen Shop Work, Department of Manual Arts, Boston Trade School, and Continuation School 10.

  9. The foremen walked back and forth between the rails, as if on quarter-decks, exhorting their men.

  10. As the race became closer, the foremen would get more excited, begging their crews to increase the speed of the stroke, beating their speaking trumpets into shapeless and battered relics.

  11. At eleven-thirty, when the men were looking forward to their midday meal, and were congratulating themselves that their labours were nearly finished, one of the contractors' foremen suddenly appeared.

  12. The 'lads' expressed their disapproval of things in general and contractors' foremen in particular in loud, full-blooded nautical blasphemy.

  13. Wooten kept a watchful eye upon everything that went on, and in the intervals of interviewing Admiralty overseers and foremen wrestled with his correspondence and confidential books and documents.

  14. When he heard the men coming in from work he got his horse and saddled it, and then waited for the foremen with their daily reports.

  15. Yonder, toward Valley City, Truxton's two foremen were directing their men with the same quick-eyed, steady competence which they had manifested under the eye of the older engineer.

  16. And, realizing only that nothing could be done with Truxton for the present and that he himself was next in command, he hastened to where the four foremen were standing, grinning at him.

  17. No, he doesn't know a thing about the work, but my foremen do, and Brayley knows men as you know your multiplication-tables.

  18. The four foremen are as capable as a man could ask for.

  19. Fifty paces from the tent he came upon his two foremen--Ben the Englishman and the Lark--talking in low tones with the two foremen who had worked under Truxton's eye.

  20. Brayley reported that the work was running smoothly, that his foremen were as good men as he ever wanted to see, that he had no fault to find anywhere.

  21. Artizans, foremen and the like are thereby generally excluded by the infrequency of their sales, while the middle-aged, the old and the defective are eliminated by leaving aside the quotations of lower range.

  22. The manual demonstration method is the chief method of teaching the workmen by the foremen under Scientific Management, and no method is rated as standard that cannot be successfully demonstrated by the teacher, at any time, on request.

  23. But the most important and valuable change in the worker's feelings is the change in his attitude towards the foremen and the employer.

  24. Only men higher up, the foremen and the superintendents could obtain real development from personal responsibilities.

  25. Under Functionalization the number of years of productivity of all, workers and foremen alike, are increased.

  26. This results in coöperation between foremen, between foremen and workers, and between workers.

  27. All of these are great advantages to him in deciding justly and appropriately punishments and promotion, not for the workers alone but also for the foremen and the managers.

  28. Men in the organization are preferable to outsiders as functional foremen and for promotion.

  29. This, both by providing for the teaching of foremen and journeymen as well as apprentices, and by the providing of written systems of instructions as to best practice.

  30. In the second stage, the laws are known and installed as fast as functional foremen can be taught their new duties and the resistances of human nature can be overcome.

  31. The men are responsible to my foremen, my foremen are responsible to me, and I in turn am wholly responsible to you.

  32. He had interviewed men and foremen impartially, and the amount of information which these simple sons of toil instilled into his receptive mind would have aroused the suspicions of a less self-centred man.

  33. The contemptuous disregard of his orders, the coarse insolence of the men, and especially of the foremen and shift bosses, organised into the union by Morrison, had stung Firmstone to the quick.

  34. You give orders at the mine, and instead of trusting your foremen to see that they are carried out you almost daily insist upon inspecting their work and interfering with it.

  35. I do not hire a single man at the mine or mill; my foremen attend to that.

  36. She relies almost entirely on foreign sources for foremen and supervisors; and her intelligentsia have yet to develop the right tradition of industrialism.

  37. Some of his foremen are getting marvellously well-to-do suddenly.

  38. Sundays, they were now making upwards of two guineas per week, free of incumbrance, while the foremen were in the receipt of about double that sum.

  39. In these advantages, the foremen also shared, having about double the pay and amount of premiums of the artificers.

  40. Thirty years ago the fear of tropical diseases would have made these regions seem impossible for white men, even as foremen or overseers.

  41. Engineers died, foremen died, labourers were mown down by hundreds.

  42. The manager asked me would I talk to some of their shop foremen and tell them what a shortage of shells meant to the Front.

  43. The foremen of the factory, old soldiers of France, admirers of M.

  44. One of the foremen could not help saying to the clerks in the writing department, Germans like himself: "The German cavalry is making ravages here: the master looks half mad.

  45. He had turned for a moment, with a frown--while the foremen and German workmen of the factory greeted M.

  46. There are nine foremen of the heading gangs, two of whom have $100 per month, and the remainder $3.

  47. The Iron Boys as Foremen OR Heading the Diamond Drill Shift By JAMES R.

  48. I don't imagine the other foremen are pleased with the pace you have set for them.

  49. At the same time Mr. Penton warned Steve that these disagreements between mine captain and foremen were very bad for the discipline of the mine.

  50. One of the foremen in the mines had been stationed at the only telephone that was working, where Steve directed him to keep the superintendent informed of the progress of the fire and of the work that was being done to check it.

  51. Waving their hands in parting salute, the young foremen turned and walked away to attend to their duties.

  52. Many of the engineers and foremen had dressed up that morning, and a few had fished out a white shirt.

  53. The local foremen along the line saw in the young Englishman the future foreman of the new shops, and no man went out of his way to help the stranger.

  54. Owenite demand that the workers must be allowed to "own their own factories and decide by vote who their managers and foremen shall be.

  55. We may witness in the near future that foremen will join the I.


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