Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wynn's Carnival", gave their acrobatic and dancing act--clever acrobatics enlivened with plenty of humor. Followed Belle Storey, "America's foremost Coloratura Soprano". Marvel of marvels, she is not only possessed of a voice and evidently has heard the English language spoken, but she is an extremely pleasant object for contemplation. We had thought that all good singers must be built on the pouter pigeon model and Miss Storey was an agreeable surprise...
...principal objects of the club this year will be to introduce in the University-the English system of debating. This differs from the American system in that there are no formal teams, the object of this form of debating being mainly to stimulate public speaking and the expression of opinion...
...instead of being a single individual, he had been fifty millions to Abel's twenty-five millions and had called himself a nation? Is a nation under any more obligation to abstain from acts against other nations which, if committed by a private individual, would make him an object of general abhorrence, and perhaps bring him to the gallows? Is abstaining from such things the limit of its moral obligation, or does it have any positive duties to others? In short, does the Golden Rule have any application among nations...
...owner of property justified in managing it to augment his own profits, regardless of the general welfare; and is the laborer justified in curtailing production if it be to the detriment of the community at large; and if not, what are the proper limitations? Again, it is not my object here to express or imply answers to such questions, but to point out that they require answers; because the tranquility and welfare of our country depends upon their being answered aright, and no man, whatever his position in life, can wholly free himself from the responsibility for the opinions...
...foreman was accepted and lacked a consideration of all the conditions. Moreover, the time study man was looked upon by the shop as an undesirable citizen. His position was very hard to fill and very little thought of by those who might be competent. He was the object of much abuse and there were few workmen who would concede that he possessed the least spark of justice or honesty. Consequently, the tendency was to try to fool him as often as possible by 'stalling.' At times even the foreman, ignoring the fact that much of the spoiled work could...