Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undertaken, seems rather significant. Even supposing that the revolvers were for self, defense and the fuses for digging foundations, some responsibility should fall on the agitators' shoulders for inciting discontent. A radical enthusiast in the recent textile strike announced the principle of "when your boss needs you most,--strike. Content is a bad sign, never be contented. Strike whenever good times appear and the capitalists will have to pay you." Even granting that such assertions are not characteristic of all unionism, Mr. Gompers' plea that labor be saved from the courts might almost be paraphrased into "saving the cities from...
...scheme of an inner and outer bar such as has been proposed by the Carnegie report. In this system, the higher grade of lawyers would be permitted to practice in the inner bar, while those failing to attain this position, either from moral or legal failings, would have to content themselves with the practice of criminal law in the outer or lower...
...party affiliations in regard to complete autonomy. I feel it only fair to place before you the answer to your question which those favoring independence would proffer. To quote Senior Quezon's declaration before Congress in reply to the frequent query of "Wry should not the Filipino people be content with American rule?" "I will answer", he said, "in the language of that great apostle of human freedom, Daniel Webster. 'No matter how easy may be the yoke imposed by a foreign power, if it is not imposed by the voice of his own nation and his own people...
China needs to adjust population and resources, unless she is content to remain economically foot-bound. It is true that China is over-populated; there is not, however, an extreme general density of population. In China as a whole the population per square mile is less than half that of Massachusetts and one-third that of England. But there are huge spots of density; as for example, in the far western province of Szechwan, four million people--the equivalent of the population of Massachusetts--life on the Chengtu Plain, an area less than twice the size of Rhode Island...
Yale, on the other hand, not content with using the well-equipped Hyperion Theatre near at hand, is raising a fund for one in the college. The University of California has its Greek Theatre; while Michigan and North Carolina are building theatres to cost, on the average, approximately $175,000. Like the last swimming team, dramatics at Harvard must have proper facilities or lose out in the face of expansion at other universities...