Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through the intervention of the Department of Labor it will be possible to prevent the waste that now occurs because men of one trade are idle when they might be employed at another, and because industries hampered by lack of workers are uniformed of the Market in which their wants could be met. The extravagant idleness characteristic of seasonal trades can easily be modified, if not done away with. There are may occupations now producing luxuries that can be diverted to necessaries with profit to employers, employees and the country...
...panic yesterday morning in the Cambridge Subway, near Kendall station, was exactly what might have been expected in a train packed to the doors, such as is characteristic of the service during rush hours...
Fortunately there were both men and women on the cars who kept their heads and became influences for order in the apparent danger, helping the rest to recover their nerve and get out of the train. Were it not for their bravery many more injuries might have resulted...
...noted for its beer, and Detroit for its Ford, so, too, Boston is known on account of the bean. Any blow at its prestige is a slap at Boston. Indeed, Daniel was cast into the lions' den for not bowing before Darius' idol; if the commissioners had erred they might have suffered similarly and as a penalty for snubbing the sacred bean they would doubtless have been cast into the Cambridge Subway, there to meet their fate...
...very much less than half the tale. The question of collection is quite imminent. That part of the story seems to be progressing with difficulty. It is not to be doubted that those who have pledged will eventually make good their promise. Yet at present the undergraduate body might well be accused of having "a morbid propensity to sloth and procrastination." The collection of these pledges is ordinarily no easy work since they are so widely scattered. This gift of the University was not from a few, but from the whole body of students. Let us expedite this work...