Word: fill
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country. Six hundred thousand teachers are needed in the United States to teach the 20,000,000 pupils in our schools, and 100,000 new positions are open every year; yet the teacher-training institutions of the country do not turn out more than 25,000 graduates to fill them...
...time of reconstruction at hand today, France must make the most of the slender stock that is left her. We must start afresh to fill the depleted ranks of our scientists and scholars and we must choose as broad and firm a foundation as possible. Every child in France should have an opportunity to make the most of its latent possibilities...
...occasion will not solve it. Recent events show only too clearly that the more the strikers get, the more they want. Crushing the strikes once they start appears clearly impossible due to the high organization and strength of the modern labor unions. But an anti-strike law would not fill the bill. Its immediate result would be a general uprising; it takes away from the laboring man his only means of self-protection...
...most important objects of compulsory physical training is to interest Freshmen in some form of outdoor sport. Exercise in a gymnasium is good, but is does not fill the place of a competitive game played in the open air. Mere development of the muscles during one year is not what is wanted; a real interest must be aroused so that men will regard their exercise not as an unpleasant task required of them, but as a real pleasure which they will continue throughout their college course...
Owing to the multiplicity of drives and to the upward trend of prices, it is very possible Greater Boston's quota will be hard to fill. But of Harvard a surplus can reasonably be expected, thereby neutralizing to some small extent the deficiency in other localities. Again Harvard is called upon to aid a national good. Again it must rise to the occasion...