Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...elective system. On this Professor Kuehnemann observes that "discipline and liberty in the realm of education bear to each other the relation of premise and conclusion. Hence misgivings will be stronger in a country which, in respect to its school-system or systems, has not yet ceased to betray its character as a land of pioneers...
...find "graft," said Mr. Steffens, is to go to a "grafter" for it. The board of aldermen in every city of the country are corrupt, and betray the confidence of the people whom they represent. The American government no longer represents the whole nation, but only its worst and most unscrupulous part...
...magazine--are, excepting the frontispiece, diminutive, indistinct and ordinary. The review of the football season is choppy and not always in good English; while "The Spirit of Football" is pointless from first line to last. Though timely in choice of topic, the editorials are inadequate in treatment and betray an attempt at force by the too common artifice of writing at the top of one's voice. "O-Yuki-San's Love" is almost photographic in its vivid description of Japanese life. With scenes more nearly within the average reader's experience, there are great possibilities for a writer...
...most important remedies would be enforced publicity, compelling the directors to run the company in the interests of the stock-holders, and doing away with the great profits of the promoter. This publicity would not necessarily betray any of the secrets of the business to a rival, for reports could be made only to stock-holders, which might be verified by a board of auditors chosen by the stock-holders themselves. Still it would probably be unwise to do anything further than to take away the special advantages of trusts, which verge on monopolies...