Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Electric Co., a vast open-shop organization, did not speak in person. President Green quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young at a Labor convention startle old-fashioned...
Cried Dr. Gills: ". . . Any information [about Navy health] which Rear Admiral Magruder lack's, I can give him. . . . We need more Magruders and fewer recruiting posters. . . .In the interest of human life, I do not propose to be muzzled...
...Then we might disband 900,000 of these organizations and make the other 100,000 more intelligent and stronger than they are today. What they need is an efficiency expert in these organizations...
Concluded Mr. Lloyd George: "I need hardly add that I never uttered many of the observations, some of them extremely foolish, attributed to me in these diaries. But that is the way of most diarists, and I have suffered a good deal in the last few years from a variety of them. Words used in jest are treated as if in earnest; words seriously used are torn from their context and therefore having a different meaning, the essentially qualifying phrases invariably being omitted; and then in the inevitable defects of human memory when sentences taken from conversations which lasted...
...proposed opera house need not be supported by royalty, nor by directors. Part of the building is a 26-story apartment house. The rent will help to defray maintenance...