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1) La Hire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...La Hire, (la er) (KEY) , c.1390-c.1443, French commander in the Hundred Years War, whose real name was Etienne de Vignoles or Vignolles. He entered (1418) the service...

2) La Hire, Laurent de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...La Hire, Laurent de, (both: loraN´ d la er) (KEY) , 1606-56, French painter. He produced many portraits and historical paintings, a few romantic landscapes, important...

3) La Hyre, Laurent de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...La Hyre, Laurent de, see La Hire, Laurent de....

4) Aretino, Pietro. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(KEY) , 1492-1556, Italian satirist. He led a life of adventure and wrote abusive works for hire. His derisive wit was so feared that the gifts of those who sought...

5) Love, Alfred Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...a Quaker, remained firm in his principles at the outbreak of the Civil War, refusing even to hire a substitute when he was drafted; he set forth his position in An...

6) carriage. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and nobility of Europe in the 16th cent. The hackney coach, which was any carriage for hire, was introduced in London c.1605. During the 17th cent. coaches became...

7) labor, in economics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...came into use in Great Britain and its colonies, called indenture, by which people could hire themselves out for a certain number of years either for a lump sum of...

8) production. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...automation, with attendant increases in the division of labor, allowed manufacturers to hire unskilled or semiskilled labor, which would repeatedly perform small...

9) parochial school. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...education at less cost. Because of such criticisms, parochial schools were forced to hire lay teachers, who came to account for an increasingly larger proportion...

10) injunction. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...labor's activity (e.g., unreasonably limiting the employer's freedom by requiring him to hire only union members) was illegal. The power of federal courts to enjoin...

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