"You can't just think of it as an eight-hour day.". From Wordnik.com. [Living On Dracula Time] Reference
You give eight-hour conferences to preach their benefits. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Sockless Marketing] Reference
A guarantee of a permanent eight-hour day in all plants in. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Allen, who used to shoot eight-hour days, began working 12. From Wordnik.com. [Knock On Woody, He's Doing Fine] Reference
But by then, eight-hour shifts had given way to 12-hour ones. From Wordnik.com. [Burning The Midnight Oil] Reference
The eight-hour labor movement was an additional embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
The eight-hour law, for example, is no revolutionary demand. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
She also lobbied for an eight-hour workday and an end to child labor. From Wordnik.com. [Honoring Unsung Hero of Women's Rights Movement] Reference
The eight-hour law for workers in the executive departments had become. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
The first measure of this program provided for a general eight-hour day. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
There were no eight-hour days, the only limit being the daylight each way. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
That's barely a minute per case, assuming he works a normal eight-hour day. From Wordnik.com. ['Robo-signer' played quiet role in huge number of foreclosures] Reference
The first Labor Day rally, in 1882, was in support of an eight-hour workday. From Wordnik.com. [Things you should know about Labor Day] Reference
"This changes everything," Powell told an aide on the eight-hour flight home. From Wordnik.com. [¿Adios, Amigos?] Reference
Land reform, taxation reform, the eight-hour day, are being carried out, however. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
We've worked overtime already, and you know there is an eight-hour law now for fairies. From Wordnik.com. [Keineth] Reference
This ship proved to be a good design and completed an eight-hour trial flight in September. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
During the eight-hour hearing, Diana's mother, Frances Shand-Kydd, studiously ignored Fayed. From Wordnik.com. ['It's Not What She Would Have Wanted'] Reference
Pay a man good wages and give him the eight-hour day — what kind of a union man will he make?. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Training begins in September, and volunteers must serve four-to eight-hour shifts Monday-Saturday. From Wordnik.com. [Prince George's County volunteer opportunities] Reference
On Bush's first foreign trip-an eight-hour stay in Mexico-the two-amigos feel was hardly impromptu. From Wordnik.com. ['That's Our Dubya'] Reference
When Roger failed to check in at the regular eight-hour signal, they went out to see what was wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
I mean, the idea behind the record was to take a crazy, eight-hour night and condense it into 65 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Moby: Making His 'Last Night' One to Remember] Reference
"It didn't seem realistic that one eight-hour day of talking at men would change their behavior," he says. From Wordnik.com. [A School for Johns] Reference
After a few short, local rides to make sure nothing was amiss, I ventured on an eight-hour excursion back in early May. From Wordnik.com. [Wrenched and Ridden bike reviews: Schwalbe Ultremo HT tubular tires] Reference
In their enthusiasm for humanity, they forget that the brotherhood of man may be made as ridiculous as the eight-hour day. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Those were the days of eight-hour shifts, 10 shifts per pay period, with new graduates at the bottom of the list for day work. From Wordnik.com. [Burning The Midnight Oil] Reference
Thankfully, the people leading movements for the eight-hour day and civil rights and against the Vietnam War didn't "chill out.". From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Denvir: Jon Stewart, Your Rally Is Laughing-at-You Funny] Reference
The charter applications provided details of the much-discussed Edison model: a seven - or eight-hour school day for 210 days per year. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Public Schools Private] Reference
Labor activists eventually ended child labor -- and won better working conditions for adult workers, including the eight-hour work day. From Wordnik.com. [Things you should know about Labor Day] Reference
Engineers huddled following Saturday's eight-hour, three-minute effort – the sixth longest spacewalk ever – to consider their options. From Wordnik.com. [Space Station Astronauts On Urgent Repair Job] Reference
Humans Need eight hours Sleep a Night: There are many ways of sleeping and few cultures sleep in eight-hour consolidated blocks like we do. From Wordnik.com. [Five Myths About Sleep and Insomnia] Reference
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