Word: convict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Encouragement of collective bargaining; laws regulating hours and conditions of labor; reciprocity in state laws regarding the product of convict labor; inauguration of public works in time of unemployment; cooperation with states in protecting women and children in industry...
...countless examining boards and committees are little by little coming into actual existence. The dreary descriptions penned by Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde, among a score of other forces working to the same end, are apparently effecting their purpose with a slow but steady persistence. The idea of a convict being a mental invalid and of a prison being properly a remedial hospital for his cure which would have aroused nothing but blank amazement in the minds of Judge Jeffrey's and his contemporaries, is accepted at the present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching...
...John Carley, ex-convict and professional thief, who decides, under the pressure of reading he has done in the prison library, to become "an intellectual Christ." He robs department stores in the day, and in the evening he gives away sealed envelopes containing one hundred dollar bills...
...Beasts, Men, and Gods here narrates some of his earlier adventures on the same continent. Employed by the Tsar's government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo rise from the same lake. During these travels he watched the Tatars taming their wild horses, he saw the two eyes...
...This fault is exactly one of many which this course is designed to remedy. You quote justly when you appeal to President Eliot's statement, "The well-educated man is the man who knows how to use his own language well." In fact, you quote so justly that you convict yourselves...