Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well to be taken into account. Not only does an inferior grade of foreign labor lessen available employment for Americans, but it tends to depreciate wages and in some instances practically monopolizes a given field. Moreover, those who do not become a public burden through lack of work, are apt to develop a thrift which impels them to return their savings to their native land...
...boys if the romance of the rocky coast with its northern lights, the open life and the satisfaction of having done something for the cause of bringing life and happiness to the frozen north does not more than counterbalance the tedious lifting or lame muscles which one is apt to receive after the first day's work...
...sometimes apt to think that the voices that sounded at the dawn of poetry were simple, fresher, and more natural than ours, and that the world which the early poets looked at, and through which they walked, had a kind of poetical quality of its own, and almost without changing could pass into song. The snow lies, thick now upon Olympus, and its steeped scarped sides are bleak and barren, but once, we fancy, the white feet of the Muses brushed the dew from the anemones in the morning, and at evening came Apollo to sing to the shepherds...
...possible to eliminate party polities from the actual machinery of the government, nationalization would be the logical remedy for most of the problems affecting those industries essential to public welfare. But unfortunately there exiate in the United States no permanent system of disinterested administration. Governmental control is only too apt to mean but one more card in the hands of these who make politics, and not business, their study; and as long as such a condition continues to exist, just so long must any trend toward governmental control be considered unwise...
...stage has seen a variety of mystical pieces which have delved more or less deeply into this rather intangible subject. Edward Knoblock's latest offering, "One," now playing at the Tremont Theatre, proceeds a step further than any similar play, however, and by reason of its audacious plot is apt to go over the heads of the average audience. At any rate, it provides a dual role for Frances Starr in which she has plenty of opportunity to prove that she is still the very able emotional actress of "Marie-Odile" and "Tiger! Tiger...