Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report of the Princeton University Athletic Association for the season of 1915-16 shows a gain of almost $3,000 over the profit of the previous year. The sum total gained by athletics at that university amounted...
...while it was shown to be imminent, our nation contented itself with the thought that we might wage war, should we be compelled by undesired necessity, with money and munitions, the money to be lent at a fair rate of interest, the munitions to be manufactured at a fair profit. For a month now we have been at war, and our nation has come to realize that some bravery is to be demanded of it, some sacrifice, some fortitude of spirit. Not by iron alone, but by blood and iron, will we win victory. That blood must...
There is no way whereby a man will be provided a commission before going into training. Our nation does not want men who do not profit by training. But a good man serving for three months will come out a better man at the end of his period of service. It is for us to increase our powers. The R. O. T. C. is the work we have...
There is no profit to a single man in waiting for some hoped-for opportunity which may never arise. If he waits, he had as well wait to the end of the war, when his nation will have attained victory or gone down to perdition without him. No man wants to be a procrastinator...
...experience goes, it is unique in either academic or professional journalism. Yet I should not be surprised if it were found significant of the general literary situation. I understand that it has become increasingly difficult to get good stories for the magazines, one reason being the greater profit from writing scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that, in the past, has had-to be worked up slowly and elaborately into conventional fiction form. Much of the "free verse...