man-hour
The amount of work done by one person in one hour. It is sometimes convenient in costing a job to estimate the number of man-hours it will take.
man hour Quick reference
A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... hour The quantity of work performed by an average worker during one hour...
man-hour Quick reference
A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
...-hour ( person-hour ) The amount of work done by one person in one hour. It is sometimes convenient in costing a job to estimate the number of man-hours it will...
Man of the Hour, The (1906) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
... of the Hour, The ( 1906 ) , a play by George Broadhurst . [Savoy Theatre, 479 perf.] Alwyn Bennett ( Frederick Perry ) is a rich, idealistic young man who has gotten himself elected mayor on a reform ticket. Charles Wainwright ( James E. Wilson ), a rapacious financier, and Richard Horigan ( Frank MacVicars ), the local political boss, set out to obtain a perpetual monopoly on the city's public transportation. When Bennett refuses to grant the franchise and announces he will fight it, the men determine to use every means to destroy him. Bennett's problem...
man-hour Quick reference
New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
...-hour • bower , cower, devour, dower, embower, empower, endower, flour, flower, gaur, Glendower, glower, hour, lour, lower, our, plougher ( US plower), power, scour, shower, sour, Stour, sweet-and-sour, tower • Beckenbauer • Eisenhower • Schopenhauer • safflower • passion flower • bellflower • mayflower • cauliflower • wallflower • cornflour , cornflower • sunflower • elderflower • man-hour • Adenauer • manpower • brainpower • willpower • horsepower • firepower • water power • rush hour • ...
man-hour
Man of the Hour
SIX hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool (2013) Quick reference
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (6 ed.)
... hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool A saying with many variants, it considerably antedates Napoleon (see quot. 2013 ). □ 1623 j. wodroephe Spared Hours of Soldier 310 The Student sleepes six Howres, the Traueller seuen; the Workeman eight, and all Laizie Bodies sleepe nine houres and more. 1864 j. h. friswell Gentle Life 259 John Wesley …considered that five hours’ sleep was enough for him or any man.…The old English proverb, so often in the mouth of George III , was ’six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and...
Islam and the Socialist Revolution Reference library
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...understood, is not tied to any particular interests, to no specific clergy, to no temporal power. Neither feudalism nor capitalism can claim it as their own. Islam brought to the world a lofty notion of human dignity which condemns racism, chauvinism, and the exploitation of man by man. Its fundamental egalitarianism can find an expression adapted to every epoch. It behooves the Muslim people, whose destiny today is mingled with that of the Third World, to become aware of the positive aspects of their spiritual and cultural patrimony and to reassimilate them...
The Indonesian Revolution Reference library
Muhammad Natsir
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...Islam have such a close connection to humane values that the estimation of a man's religious profession is based on what he does and how he does it to fulfill his responsibilities towards humanity. There are warnings in the Qur'an for the man who makes an insincere pretense of religion—called “one who makes a lie of his religion”—even though he bobs up and down [in fake prayer] five times in each 24 hours and fasts through the whole month of Ramadan. He will yet be known as the man who made a lie of his religion if he will not cast the slightest glance to the...
The New Renaissance Reference library
Hasan Al-Bannā
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...ray of hope, a grain of faith, or of providing anxious persons the smallest path toward rest and tranquillity. Man is not simply an instrument among others. Naturally, he has become tired of purely materialistic conditions and desires some spiritual comfort. But the materialistic life of the West could only offer him as reassurance a new materialism of sin, passion, drink, women, noisy gatherings, and showy attractions which he had come to enjoy. Man's hunger grows from day to day: he wants to free his spirit, to destroy this materialistic prison and find space...
The Four Gospels in Synopsis Reference library
Henry Wansbrough
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...me one hour? 41 Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ 42 Again he went away for a second time and prayed, ‘My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.’ 43 Again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. 44 So leaving them again, he went and prayed for the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then he came to the disciples and said to them, ‘Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? See the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is...
John Reference library
René Kieffer and René Kieffer
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...understand that the Son of Man who will be lifted up is really the light present among them. vv. 20–6 , these verses show how Jesus' death will lead to life. The Greeks are either proselytes or God-fearers like Cornelius in Acts 10–11 . Already in 7:35 the evangelist alluded to the mission among the Greeks. The intermediaries Philip and Andrew both have Greek names. The hour which formerly had not yet come ( 2:4 and 7:6, 8; cf. 7:30; 8:20 ) is now at hand. It is not only the hour when Jesus will be arrested, but also the hour of his glorification ( cf....
Class Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...to labour from morning to night for one who cares not how soon your weak and tender frames are stretched to breaking! A huge procession to the Manchester reform meeting of 23 August 1832 was headed by a flag with the representation of a deformed man, inscribed with the *abolitionist slogan ‘Am I not a man and a brother?’ and underneath ‘No White Slavery’. The political rhetoric of patriotism also continued to be contested terrain. While the government and ruling classes used a language of patriotism both to smear reformers with the taint of French...
We Must Think Before We Act; September 11 Was a Gift to the U.S. Administration Reference library
Muhammad Husain Fadlallah Sayyid
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...hostile combat. When we study the question of Islam's view of the other, the other at that time was Jew or Christian. We read “word of agreement” ( kalamat al-siwa ) is the one God, even though we differ on the nature of the unity, and the unity of humanity, namely that man cannot be lord of man and come to an agreement. History indicates that Islam embraces the other and does not interfere with its basic notion. Perhaps there were problems between Muslims and Christians and Jews, just like there were problems between Muslims themselves and Christians themselves...
Utopianism Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...States in New Britain ( 1820 ). There only water is drunk with meals; each member of the population farms and has a trade; labour is confined to four hours daily, and is based upon a principle of ‘moderation and equity’. None possesses more land than is ‘requisite for comfortable subsistence’. Money and barter have been abolished; and labour and trade are governed by the principle that it is wrong ‘for a man to acquire all he can’. Machinery is widely used, but only where it decreases labour. Elected officials are unpaid; there is universal free education;...
