Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deplorable miscalculation which resulted in the eventless, wholesale roundup seems to have been caused by the excellence of the bootleggers' product. The army of thirty lumberjacks, who were apparently counted on to repulse the officers, was paralyzed by the liquor. Had there been less kick in the product, the hapless, defenseless bootleggers might have fulfilled their anticipation of stimulating the courage of their constituents rather than seeing all the available bravery drowned in the gutter...
...conditions as only temporary. All industry is suffering--manufacturing as well as agriculture; to favor the farmers and not the manufacture can be justified only if the legislation is framed to meet an unusual and temporary crisis. There must be good cause for creating artificially high prices or the product of one industry and not of another...
...nearly three centuries the state, the government, and the commonwealth have leaned on Harvard College," said Governor Calvin Coolidge at the dinner given last night by the Memorial Society to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the building of Massachusetts Hall. "Massachusetts especially has looked on it as the product of her civilization. Founded by a man who had her interests at heart it became a place primarily un- der religious auspices and at the came time a pillar of the state; ever since that time it has remained loyal and true to the principles of the commonwealth...
...given their time and thought to its development, all reasonable protection, and I do not believe that it is necessary for Harvard, in order to be good sportsmen, to discard the results of this ceaseless effort. A football play cannot be patented but I see no reason why the product of the brain should not be given all reasonable safe-guards...
...stage affects the younger people more than any other form of art--for after all the stage is an art though we sometimes seem to forget it. So a direct product of the community theatre will be the turning of the theatre-going habit of the young into higher channels...