Word: meres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no harm in mere numbers, for the number of immigrants in the United States is not excessive, nor is the volume of our immigration directly responsible for any evils of our social and industrial conditions; and consequently the limitation of numbers by the literacy test would not solve our social, economic and industrial problems. Our re- sources and industries, moreover, need more labor to develop them. Any decided restriction of immigration would greatly increase our cost of living and raise both federal and local taxes...
...liquor, were considered as not directly feasible, and the commission's proposals chiefly had to do with the enforcement of existing laws, amendments to existing statutes, and with the training of public opinion by temperance instruction in the schools. In summing up the report, it was submitted that mere imprisonment is an inadequate treatment for inebriety, that it is greatly desirable that habitual drunkenness be no longer considered as a crime, but as a form of disease, and that accordingly the state should adopt an immediate substitution of the hospital for the prison. These suggestions the legislature is considering...
...judicial interpretation of trust cases, thus making no discrimination between the petty and harmless restraint of trade allowable by late decisions of the Supreme Court, and the large and detrimental monopolies by the more powerful corporations. Such acts would do little toward bettering the situation. The prevention of mere combination is not the solution, and what is really needed is the prevention of harmful trade restraint. None of the proposed legislation would improve on the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, the wording of which Professor Durand considers remarkably simple in its all-inclusiveness...
When all is said and done, the mere undertaking deserves credit. In the short time allowed for rehearsals, the cast and orchestra managed to give a creditable performance. And the play had its own merits, while the music was an achievement almost throughout...
...spirit on the part of those having collections of letters and papers is to make such resources available to historical investigators. Often it is found that owners take a very worthy pleasure in exhibiting to friends such relics; but carefully-made photographs have almost the same value as a mere exhibit, and the handling and exposure to light, and the general exposure to utter destruction by fire is of great consequence in the case of originals...