Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he was four months in office, he had to write his first message. Laboriously, painfully, he went over nearly every proposal which was before the country. He tried to master each. Believing, as a New Englander does, that a thing is either right or wrong, he did not attempt to dodge or straddle any question. Even the red hot Soldier Bonus he touched, briefly to be sure, in his own interest, making his statement merely...
...trusts," between the trusts which were the instruments of "malefactors of great wealth" and those which had grown great simply because they were captained by capable business men. The vital quality of big business is apparent from the fact that, since "dissolution." most of the "trusts" have prospered, indicating either that the old practices were unnecessary or that legal attack was ineffectual...
...trust builders and also , the old fear of trusts has gone. Big business still takes its toll of small, : but it does so mostly by the greater efficiency which comes from mass operation and this is regarded as legitimate. The old trust masters, ambitious egoists, often unscrupulous, . have either died or retired. In their place is a new generation who overbid their competitors in efficiency, of which Henry Ford is an example. The public fear of trusts has gone likewise, because the public understands that big business is a necessity under modern conditions and, especially in the last decade, because...
...tonight. Pratt is especially strong on defense play, and he has also shown considerable ability in carrying the puck down the ice. Chase, who was the only Crimson luminary in the last Yale contest, will be at the other defense position, with Howard the first substitution for either of these positions...
There are usually three types of student at any college: the energetic (in the Aristotelian sense), the dilettante, and the social. The first, being serious by nature, aims at true culture or specialization, in either case accomplishing his end by self-willed study. The second does not pursue any one subject for any length of time, but flits about from Boccaccio to George Moore, takes all the "appreciation" courses, and possibly athletics. The third has no interest in the intellectual life proper, being too much occupied with the pleasure of clothes, tobacco, alcohol, the atres, clubs...