Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing for Harvard undergraduates, who, because of their age, are not yet liable to draft, to try to find some way of entering the service immediately, and give up their studies, in order to make use of their good will, their physical strength, and their intellectual capacity in some kind of war work...
...destroy it in all parts of the world. Its terms of membership are $1 per year, which includes payment for its quarterly bulletin. The secretary does not wish to hear from tariff-reformers or tariff-deformers, tariff-tinkerers, tariff-for-revenuers, or tariff-tolerators of any kind. If you are a tariff-destroyer, an absolutely free trader, and wish to join the army of the living God of justice and peace, write and enroll. Do it now, for the Philistines are "united, solid and aggressive" in their opposition to free trade, peace and good-will among nations. SAMUEL MILLIKEN...
...consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will be American. They will be composed of one big plank--Victory, And yet there are many ways of obtaining this national goal. Destroy the parties and you kill all criticism, the right kind of which is essential even in a crisis. If we have arrived at that state where all the voters of this country think alike, then away with all parties. It may be questioned whether such a state is either healthy or desirable...
...overwhelming demand for men of a certain trade but no men to take the jobs, so that less skilled men have to be used; while in another town there may be many men of the same trade who do not know where to turn for their own kind of work and are therefore forced into unskilled labor. Workmen are hired largely on chance and necessarily a large percentage are bound to be unsatisfactory, whereupon they are promptly discharged and new men taken on in an equally careless way. This creates a very large turnover of labor that is wasteful...
...Scroll and Keys when he left for France. That is not an infallible proof that he was all right, but it shows what his own class thought of him, and you can take my word for it anyway, that you don't meet a man of his ability and kindness in every day's journey you make. He once fell off a cliff,--perhaps I told you about it, and was very badly hurt,--and had to stay out of school for a year with a bad foot, and I think that accident made him very patient and very kind...