Word: called
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...call for candidates will be issued November 5. The aspirants will prepare on the assigned subject, and each will speak five minutes on either side of the subject at the try-outs. The successful candidates will immediately begin preparing for the team debating...
Radical labor is taking the bit in its teeth; it is breaking away from the control of its leaders. More and more is this fact being made evident. A few days ago, when the president of the Longshoreman's Association appeared before his organization to call off the strike that has paralyzed shipping in New York, he was mobbed; and it was only with difficulty that he escaped uninjured. A similar situation exists in the New York publishing business, where an outlaw organization of typesetters has broken with its officers and tied up the magazines to such an extent that...
...management of the band has issued a call for second assistant manager candidates from the Freshman class. The competition will last until about the first of December. The successful candidate will become manager in his Senior year...
...mean "conference," made me wonder why, since they use the word so freely, the Boston "Transcript" and the New York "Times" do not speak of our present Industrial Soviet at Washington. Perhaps the word is reserved for those conferences or councils which are un-American. But would we call the Industrial Conference un-American? or an importation from Russia? Why have all the opposition papers been so opaque as not to see how well they could hit the Conference by calling by the anathema anathematum--"Soviet...
...word more. They used to call that class of men, found in all countries, who spend their lives in the pursuit of this thing, "Truth", by one name--"intellectuals". Of this group, Professor Carver and Mr. Laski are both examples; both carn their living by thinking and the orizing. But one accuses the other indirectly of being "a Parlor Bolshevist." That kills him. Put a label on him and he is, dead as old Polomius...