Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the study of law in books and documents to the examination of individual offenses against society indicates a new outlook in the legal profession. Today the lawbreaker is dealt with under a hard and fast rule which was made to consider the mass and not the individual. With the present code there is little or no room for the services which a psychiatrist, physician, or social worker might render, not in punishing the crime, but in getting at the cause of the un-social conduct in the individual...
During the last few years bank failures have become common, the number mounting into the hundreds in Minnesota alone. I am familiar with homes where after a lifetime of hard work, people are forced to live on the small allowance available from the poor fund. I know mothers who are supporting several children on a sum of $15 or $20 a month from the same fund. I know how they are housed and clothed and what rents they pay, but imagination balks when confronted with how they keep warm and what they...
Bonds v. Stocks. Increasingly, finance committees of "big" U. S. corporations have voted to redeem bonds, issue additional common stock. One obvious and bullish reason might be to reduce annual fixed interest charges. Another reason, less obvious and less bullish, might be a desire to take precautions against hard times ahead. Should the U. S. find itself, in 1935 or 1940, in a general business depression, corporations would be glad of flexible capital structures. No such bearish suggestions, however, accompanied these developments...
...Losing a hard fought game to Battery A at the Comonwealth Armory on Saturday night by an 8 to 6 score, the Harvard Freshman poloists concluded their indoor season with a moderately successful record...
...been remarked that sex "is something most of us possess, but in which most of us do not see the guiding star of our lives." In short, while it is not difficult to understand why so much perfectly good paper is taken up with its exposition, it is hard to justify the fact on any artistic or intellectual grounds. And what applies to the bulk of the "novels" of this character applies in particular to "Plundered Host." In the words of the late Ambrose Bierce, "The covers of this book are too far apart...