Word: graftings
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...incentive to corruption will be weakened because a lease is not as valuable as a franchise, and the operating company will be less powerful. If the city assumes the burden of operation then the opportunity for this kind of corruption will be entirely eliminated. The possibility of petty graft within the department itself can be avoided by adopting civil service rules, such as the White Civil Service...
...speaker then dwelt at some length upon the injury to the moral welfare of the city which would result from the policy of municipal ownership. Graft and corruption have prevailed in New York City politics almost without interruption ever since the earliest recollection of the oldest inhabitants...
...speaker went on to show that the whole trend of contract letting in New York City has been honeycombed with graft and bribery. Tammany is opposed to municipal ownership as a party issue, knowing that it will never be popular, since the graft in it is so obvious...
...that much of the matter and of the form - allowing of course for intrinsic difference of language - of our lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing now, is, I think, almost altogether a graft from French stock, such writings as Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried...
...committee for the coming class day at Yale will send a delegate to England to obtain a graft of ivy from Westminster...