Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regard somewhat cynically efficiency experts in general, the need for them in all matters pertaining to labor is becoming increasingly apparent. While the selling of material commodities has become organized to the highest point, the selling of labor has been done for the most part in a completely haphazard manner. Trade unions have had some effect; private and semi-public labor exchanges have helped towards efficiency, but they have in general signally failed to organize the labor market even in the skilled trades, and have completely passed by the great mass of unskilled labor. Even at the present time when...
...conflict which threatens its very existence, when the enemy of that nation surpasses any people in history in deceit, insolence and violence, there is only one course left to follow. It is folly for that nation to treat these prowling, scheming marauders in any mild, milk-and-water manner. It is more than folly, it is self-destruction. Death is the traditional and just fate of proved spies...
...order that men may understand clearly the manner of electing courses for both concentration and distribution, all members of the class of 1921 who have no other college engagements at the hour set will be required to attend. All upperclassmen enrolled in Government 1 will be excused from attending the course tomorrow, as no regular lecture will be given...
...plans for the drive in this section of the country. He will be followed by T. T. Scudder 11, of the Liberty Loan Committee of New England, who is in charge of carrying on loan drives at M. I. T. and Radcliffe, and who will outline the manner in which the campaign is to be conducted at the University. According to present plans, the canvass for bond subscriptions will begin next Monday and continue until one week after the close of the spring vacation. The new loan is to be for $3,000,000,000, of which New England...
...will march to the Stadium where they will undergo a thorough inspection of rifles and equipment. Captain McDonell will then be at liberty to call upon the battalion for an exhibition of any drills, exercises, or ceremonies that he may desire to have executed. It will be the manner in which the men respond to the commands of their leaders during these drills and in the other exercises, that will count most heavily for or against the standing of the University Corps in the report to the War Department. The inspection will probably conclude with a battalion parade...