Word: em
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have not been utterly cast down. Oh no,- "If A. hadn't fumbled the ball on the five yard line, or if B. hadn't slipped just as he had a clear field, or if C. had only got by that Eli fullback, we'd have had 'em on the run. As it is they deserve lots of credit for the game they put up." Did they play against twenty men then, or some tremendous odds? No, they played against eleven men lighter than themselves...
...longer necessary and desirable.- (a) Public lands are being rapidly taken up: Yale Review, I, 129, 130 (Aug. 1892).- (b) Unskilled labor no longer so requisite.- (1) Country is fairly well opened up: Smith, Emigration and Immigration, 119.- (2) Machinery supplants hand labor in great part: Smith, Em. and Im., 119.- (c) Natural increase of population is sufficient: H. C. Lodge, Restriction of Immigration...
...Immigration has inflicted specific evils on the country.- (a) Political.- (1) Abnormal proportion of adult males gives too great voting power: Smith, Em. and Im. 79, 80.- (2) Bossism fostered: J. Strong, Our Country, p. 59.- (3) Venal voting: S. G. Fisher, Alien Degradation of American Character, in Forum, XIV. 611 (Jan. 1893).- (4) Socialistic dangers: J. Strong, Our Country, 143.- (5) Municipal problem made more difficult: J. Jtrong, Our Country, 58.- (b) Economic.- (1) Problem of the unemployed in dull times increased: Publications of the Immigration Restriction League, No. 4, SS 10, 11, and No. 8.- (2) Lowering...
Museum - Little Em...
Museum - Little Em...