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... persons . and property , the relation of capital and labor , class struggle , home conditions , factory conditions , housing , -in short , a thousand things subject to social control modifiable in almost any direction society wishes ...
... persons . and property , the relation of capital and labor , class struggle , home conditions , factory conditions , housing , -in short , a thousand things subject to social control modifiable in almost any direction society wishes ...
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... person who is poor always a pauper ? Is the person who is dependent always a pauper ? Is the pauper only that person who is willingly supported by others , who wants the world to afford him a living without work ? The term has been used ...
... person who is poor always a pauper ? Is the person who is dependent always a pauper ? Is the pauper only that person who is willingly supported by others , who wants the world to afford him a living without work ? The term has been used ...
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... persons . Of these households 293 , or 131⁄2 per cent - of these persons , 1,567 or 16 per cent — are living in a condition of primary poverty . " 5 " Out of 2,285 adult males in our composite city as to whose earnings we have definite ...
... persons . Of these households 293 , or 131⁄2 per cent - of these persons , 1,567 or 16 per cent — are living in a condition of primary poverty . " 5 " Out of 2,285 adult males in our composite city as to whose earnings we have definite ...
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... persons which did not have an income of $ 746 a year had a deficit at the end of the year . Of the 200 families studied she found that only one - fourth lived on the earnings of the father alone ; that about one- fourth had a deficit at ...
... persons which did not have an income of $ 746 a year had a deficit at the end of the year . Of the 200 families studied she found that only one - fourth lived on the earnings of the father alone ; that about one- fourth had a deficit at ...
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... persons who had salaries not above $ 1,200 . These figures were for the year 1901. The families were distributed over 33 states and living chiefly in the in- dustrial centers . The total number of persons studied in these families was ...
... persons who had salaries not above $ 1,200 . These figures were for the year 1901. The families were distributed over 33 states and living chiefly in the in- dustrial centers . The total number of persons studied in these families was ...
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Page 133 - Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 11 - I hate, I despise your feast days, And I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them...
Page 434 - That for the purpose of this act the term " persons disabled " shall be construed to mean any person who, by reason of a physical defect or infirmity, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is, or may be expected to be, totally or partially incapacitated for remunerative occupation...
Page 19 - Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them ; and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it is not so among you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister : and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all. For verily the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 12 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 133 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 12 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 134 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 13 - What shall we do then? 11 He answereth, and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none ; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.