Word: livelihoods
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...accomplish something that will make men happler and better, then the more enduring its effects the more it is worth doing. It may be done in any line of human activity. It may be done, indeed is most commonly done, in connection with earning a livelihood. One does not have to seek strange paths to find it, for it lies close at hand in every familiar field of endeavor; not only in the great arts, sciences and literature, but in the professions and in business of all kinds. The man who carries on his work, whatever it may be, with...
Princess Yolanda: " Deputy Torre, the Italian railroad commissioner, ordered the dismissal of numbers of women railway employees. I wrote him saying that it would hurt me if on the day of my wedding less fortunate women lost their means of livelihood. Thereupon he revoked the order for 10% of the women affected...
...subject, he brought out, has great interest to industries, especially those ruled by machinery, and in which the worker has come to be regarded as a cog. Here the answer to the problem will be, said Dr. Eliot, after several hours a day spent in monotonous labor earning a livelihood, to turn to some hard enjoyable work. But at the idea of there being joy in any kind of work, the labor union man scoffs in derision. And this, says Dr. Eliot, is to be deplored. The attitude that there is not happiness in work is the prevalent idea...
...while serving a fifteen year sentence in Pennsylvania for another crime. He received a pardon from Governor Sproul to enable him to stand trial on the charge of murder. His story to the jury of his life is the old story of a failure forced to earn an illegitimate livelihood by the grasping attitude of society. But coming to the murders this confessed criminal admitted that his confession was "faked", claimed his entire innocence and said to the jury quietly...
...distributor of Knowledge, the college of today has no monopoly. It is not even a very important agency. As the home of creative thought, the college has made little impression on the modern world. Well, it has one function left. It has money, and it offers a livelihood to one who fain would devote himself to matters of the spirit. It does-but on what terms and conditions...