Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...right to work on wages, the question whether employment will be more or less regular in widely established municipal industries should be asked. In periods of depression the cost of production will necessarily be increased, and prices will remain high, when they should decrease. Men in private concerns will get less work in periods of depression, and men in public concerns more, making the difference in the distribution of wealth even greater than before...
...healthy body and a healthy pride in that body, said Mr. Crane, are essentials of life, and a person cannot afford to ignore this fact. We are not to encourage an inordinate amount of muscle, but enough for endurance and all the necessities of life. The way to get this is by outdoor exercise. Now, what the human mind wants in outdoor exercise is recreation, and not work. The Marathon run gives us an example of what men will do who are inspired with an incentive, and some incentive is evidently necessary. It should be our aim then to encourage...
...seems to me, said Mr. Quincy, that the need for University men as reporters is very great. The function of the reporter is not low, but most important, and if the tone of the press is to be raised, it must be through the reporters. Let us then get educated men upon our papers, and lot. Harvard graduates start at the bottom, for it takes a man of education, trained mind, and high standards, to be a good reporter...
...bunched in the first and last innings. McCall's work at second was brilliant. He accepted seven chances perfectly, one of which was only effected after a sensational play of Merritt's line drive in the ninth, which he knocked down on the run and recovered in time to get the man at first. At the bat he secured a single and a two-bagger...
...municipal statistics, Major Darwin said that the interest on municipally governed enterprises in England rises only to about four per cent of the original value, and that municipal owners put aside only about one-fifth of the gain, which is not enough. Cities which manage their own street railways, get a lower return on their money than if the railways were rented out, the profit being eight-tenths per cent, in the former case and two per cent. in the latter...