Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short the nation today wants men who will do something, no matter what party they may belong to. And the party mechanism is not such as to produce such men. Lincolns, Clevelands, Roosevelts have been produced by chance: but as a rule "dark horses" do not make great leaders. Dissatisfaction among the people has existed for years, yet no change has been accomplished. And nothing can be expected of the present machine cogs. The only solution seems to be for the educated cream of the country to for get that gentlemen are not politicians and politicians are not gentlemen...
...said employer after employer. She sank from poverty to poverty?jobs got fewer and fewer. Accident rescued her at last?and put her in charge of the motherless little Meyerbogens?children of an enormous, kindly, widowed baker at Coronation Point. They appreciated her?at last she began to belong to a real family. And there settled, for the time at least, and, fairly content, we leave...
...haphazard methods of business belong to the prehistocic ages of five years ago when we were in the business wilderness," next decared Mr. Howard Coonley '98, president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and of the Walworth Manufacturing Company. He said that since he had discovered that the sales of the Walworth Company followed almost precisely the sales graphs prepared by the Harvard Economic Service, his company had been able to discard the old uncertain method of irregular production. By following the Harvard forecast, they had been able to estimate sales for each phase of the business cycle, and plan...
...should accept the doctrines of the Klan, founded as they are on blind prejudice and fierce racial bitterness, is extraordinary. It is but little excuse, however much it may serve to explain the situation, that the romantic and mysterious glamor of hooded figures of the inborn American craving to belong to something are probably the real attraction...
There can be no doubt that every effort has been made to extend the Union as a club. But unalterable facts prevent any complete success. Under existing conditions, which are unlikely to change very rapidly, the membership is, speaking generally, limited to those who belong to no other club. There is little to be gained by trying to force the Union down an unwilling throat; it is too likely to react unfavorably on the agent...