Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...geologist and a professor; he served on the Massachusetts topographical survey commission, on the state highway commission, on the gypsy moth commission; he was actively interested in mining enterprises in the South and West; he wrote books and magazine articles on many subjects; he was a practical, influential, honest politician. His originality showed in his frequent use of words rarely heard from the mouths of others, yet well fitted in his effective and picturesque speech; and in his peculiar handwriting which almost constituted a new alphabet, yet which was consisitently a law unto itself and as legible as other current...
...recent times overpay their recipients. The excuse for them has been that in conducting a large business the right man is cheap at any price and the wrong man dear at any price. Publicity is the best remedy for all evils of corporation management, provided that there is an honest and strenuous public opinion which will reform these evils...
...play is in two acts, the first laid in and about a summer hotel in Tacoma, Washington, the second in the garden of the Marquis Hari Kari, the Japanese governor of Nagasaki. The plot centres about the endeavors of a young collegian named Wigglesworth to earn an honest living, and his infatuation with May Lifter, the daughter of Thomas Lawson Lifter, a Chicago magnate. His college career is cut short by the villainy of an uncle who robbed him of his money, and he goes west to seek his fortune in Tacoma, where Thomas Lawson Lifter with his two daughters...
After several years of experience with Intercollegiate football, after careful consideration of the criticisms which have been made of the game, and after the many honest but fruitless efforts to change it so that these criticisms could be avoided, I have become convinced that the game as it is played today has fundamental faults which cannot be removed by any mere technical revision of the rules...
Even before this, however, a man should strive for a spotless reputation. Live an honorable life. Never degrade a woman or oppress and cheat the weaker. Be honest, sincere, candid and generous, not only with one's time and money, but in one's opinions of other men. For it is now in College that the judgments of one's contemporaries are formed, and they are the ultimate tribunal in life. A man's reputation is continually forming among men, even those who may never have seen or spoken to him. Now is the time to look forward...