Word: brake
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inadequacy in results can be traced to the executive inefficiency which is inevitable in such a rapidly expanding business as the United States Government. The rest must be attributed to the people as a whole. The very lavishness with which the Government pays for its wants has been a brake on individual production. Large classes of labor and groups of manufacturers have become impressed with the notion that they are indispensable. High wages have made it appear to many workers that they are fulfilling a patriotic duty by merely being present on the job. High prices for ships, military equipment...
...hardly be expected. Its purpose is merely to open the door so that an entire extra year of preparation will not be needed for men who have not gone to Harvard fitting schools. Making Harvard more nationally representative is a distinct work. The new plan can only remove the brake to progress in that direction which the old plan had clamped...