Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...never been found by merely pursuing it. You are here for a far more serious purpose; to qualify yourself and others for a life work. Get into contact with men and find something in common with them. Avoid mediocrity in all things like poison and strive always to break records, not records of others but your own. Keep your minds bright, sharp, keen, and serviceable tools, and remember that the habit of handling masses of facts and seeing them as they are is the greatest part of life...
...remember well an upright client who said to me once that in business one could not help cracking the Golden Rule, but he tried not to break it. He was in the main managing his own property and that of his family, and he would have found it much harder to live up to his principles if he had been conducting his affairs for the benefit of a multitude of stockholders with whom he never came into contact, and to whom he could, therefore, not explain his position...
...follows: James Higdig, president of the Ice Trust, discovers that his men in Hugglesland have struck, thereby tying up the American ice supply. Henry Chalkstones, in love with Gloriana Griggs, who is in turn loved by Dardanelles Bixby, persuades Higdig to send his rival to Hugglesland to break the strike, leaving Gloriana...
...attempt to accomplish this, he was forced to contend against the irresponsibility of a Los Angeles attorney, who in his craving for notoriety insisted upon making public every bit of information, regarding Mr. Burns's investigations that he could gather. He even went so far as to break in and rifle Mr. Burns's Los Angeles office in an attempt to find the detective's reports. Chiefly through this attorney's disclosures Mr. Burns was defeated in his purpose to bring the "big men" to justice and was forced to make his arrests prematurely. Notwithstanding the bribing of his operatives...
...notice with interest the announcement of a new system of general examinations in the Divinity School which aims at testing the student's knowledge of his subject as a whole. In the college itself all possible should be done to break down the barriers between separate courses, and to make men see their interrelation. To those trying for degrees with distinction this is now fairly satisfactorily carried out. With the new system of choosing courses, would it not be possible to hold such an examination of every candidate for any degree, in regard to that field of study which...