Word: bring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laboring classes in order that they might use the ballot intelligently to secure those great reforms so sadly needed. The majority of the students were ardent followers of Carl Marx, and possessed the greatest confidence in the power of the people to establish that form of society which would bring the greatest prosperity and happiness to the human race. The influence of so large a number of resolute, able men, well educated, and fitted in every way to be the leaders of a great popular movement, must be regarded as a powerful and significant factor in the tremendous problems...
...other people's pleasure which is exhibited when one half of an audience persists in standing up and shutting off the view of the other half. Neither were the tug-of-war teams suffocated by a dense mass of sympathic humanity crowding about them in a vain effort to bring them victory. The officers of the association may well feel gratified at the result of this, the first meeting of the year...
...Civil Service Reform League of Bloomington, Illinois, lately roused much interest in its cause by offering to the students of Indiana University prizes for the best essays in Civil Service Reform. The action of this reform league seems in many ways calculated to bring about the ends at which it aims. For people are fond of telling us that we, who are now undergraduates, will soon be prominent in American politics and journalism. If it be true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully...
...organization was severely criticised. Several speakers advocated a more extended trial of co-operation where the laborer might participate in the gains of the capitalists. Strong emphasis was laid on the fact that the existence of so powerful a body as the Knights of Labor, would not bring capital and labor into more friendly relations; and that only through harmonious action between these two instruments of production could the laborer expect to receive better compensation...
...water; but eighty-nine should remember that if they are behind hand, they must work all the harder during the next two months to catch up, because they have to row the other class crews about the first of May, and they certainly do not want to bring up the rear on that any more than in the race with Columbia. Eighty-nine has plenty of strong, heavy men trying for the crew, and there is no reason why they should not make a good showing if they work hard; but it must be real honest work...