Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commonly called newspapers, have persistently fostered the vicious idea that there are no non-essential industries, and have successfully defended a "laissez faire" policy with respect to their own profiteering. There have also been strikes and threats of strikes on the part of various labor organizations, even against the better wisdom and advice of their national organizations...
...Archbishop's mission in this country is to help bind more firmly the ties of close relationship between the United States and Great Britain. Our sympathy for his country has been steadily growing; England could have chosen no better method of increasing it still further than by sending here a man who so eminently represents the best of her traditions. He has the confidence of the King and of the Government, and what he says can be taken as authoritative. In addition, he is a most excellent speaker...
...players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged in the manufacture of munitions. But it is now appreciated that the maintenance of the standards of our amateur athletics is of great importance as an auxiliary to war. It is far better to develop the boys "back home" for future service than to permit the quality of games to retrograde out of respect for the men who have gone to the front. The youthful tennis player or the freshman or sophomore ball player of today is the soldier of tomorrow. --Boston Transcript...
...burden of insuperable odds, they shall finally turn their faces toward an honest peace, we must be ready to do our part in seeing that a decent consideration is given their proposals. In preparation for that time, we need not hurriedly condemn their every utterance. We should do better rather to maintain our traditional virtue of fair play...
...great war is found in the establishment of closer relations with Canada. By appointing the former premier of Nova Scotia resident agent at Washington, the Dominion Government does away with the cumbrous system of conducting purely local or business negotiations through the British Foreign Office at London, and secures better representation of her local needs. To supplement the work of the resident agent, Premier Bordon has made several unpresaged but important visits to the United States for the correlation of our war activities, which must make more effective the movement of our united resources of men and supplies across...