Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equally necessary. The composer is the capitalist or investor who provides the financial sinews; the orchestra is that body of aviation which provides the machines to fly and the pilots and crew to fly them and man them, and the audience is the flying public at large who commit themselves or their freight to the air. Unfortunately, in aviation, neither the first not the last are present in any considerable degree, in reality they are almost non-existent, and so it is not surprising that the soft pedal is down what time our orchestra is playing discordantly to itself...
...President Hibben said: "We are now taking a further and, we believe, important step in this direction (speaking of the Honor System). Students are unwilling to report the misdeeds of their fellows to an outside body. It is occasionally, however, known to them that certain members of the University commit actions or are guilty of conduct which, in their own words, are hurting the good name of Princeton and the moral tone of the place...
...prison on wholly fabricated evidence; the judges in the Centralia case made rulings without a show of regard for the truth; and stool-pigeons were used in the Flowers case; one of them was lately planted in a cell next to Sacco in an effort to get him to commit himself in conversation...
...some reason, the press often features the discreditable acts that labor unions commit and the mistakes that occur but gives little or no publicity in most cases to the good things that the unions are continually trying to do. The public should appreciate that labor unions are far from perfect and should not judge them so harshly when these scare stories, which are usually far from accurate, appear in the newspapers. In all fairness, more emphasis should be laid on the good that such organizations are accomplishing...
Roumania holds this land as a result of her own efforts. They were not apportioned to her by the Allies. Because of this fact, the idea of guaranteeing her frontiers disappears, for the United States declines to commit herself, and the European powers refuse to assure the preservation of the new acquisitions...