Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier and writer, better known under the penname of Ian Hay as the author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in the Living Room of the Union on Monday, February 12. In accordance with the purpose of his visit to this country as lecturing representative of England in the present war, Captain Beith will speak on some phase of the struggle from Great Britain's point of view, drawing from his wide experience in the Allied ranks as a member of the Tenth Argyl and Sutherland and Highlanders...
...implication on the President, and we, meaning the American people in general, have continually indicated that we should be rather pleased to undertake this task of reconstructing Europe and the world. In fact, that is precisely the criticism that Europe has had of us thus far--in our, "better than thou" attitude we have comfortably sat back, expressing our disapproval of that barbarous Europe, accompanying it with manifold suggestions as to how she may become as advanced...
...President's proposal for a league to prevent war, if carried into effect, will make of every nation a policeman, but of what use is a policeman without arms? He cannot keep or help keep the peace by mere realization that he is morally better than the offender. He must be prepared to enforce the law. And there lies the answer to Mr. Davis' query, "What is it for?" Far from making the President seem insincere, the increase of our army to moderate size (which is all that the universal training advocates urge) would add incalculable weight to his proposal...
...flood tide of national economic prosperity. With sales at its three stores amounting to more than $300,000, and with net earnings of nearly $32,000 on half the year's business, there seems to be no danger of a shrunken dividend in the near future. Even better still, these figures demonstrate the soundness of the co-operative principle and prove that the profit-sharing plan can more than hold its own with any other plan of retail business when given a fair opportunity...
...popular pantomime. "A Daughter of the Gods," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is evidently a production trying to equal the record set by D. W. Griffith, but William Fox, despite the amount of money expended and the miraculous care of detail shown, will have to seek a better plot around which to spend his efforts before we can take the palm from "The Birth of the Nation" and present it to this new thing for Boston...