Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While some individuals are doubtless sincerely opposing the law, the organized opposition is clearly due to the industry itself. It is said to have brought into Massachusetts the biggest war chest ever brought into any Commonwealth for any purpose. Why? Its motive is obviously the largest possible profit. On the other hand, the 420 organizations, state and local, supporting the law before the legislature and before the people, include all the altruistic organizations and the churches. The men and women who are speaking and writing for it are without pay and sacrificing time and money. Whether mistaken or not, their...
...enthusiasm is aroused; but the machinery for change is ponderous to set in motion, and before anything results, the sponsors of the plan have gone on and been replaced by new men for whom the whole process must be repeated. Many men now in the University will never profit by the projected golf links. But that is no excuse for them to hold back their much-needed expression of interest. The present is the "psychological moment" for pushing the plan. There is an active group of golf enthusiasts, especially in the lower classes, to carry it on. Aided...
...guests. Both his hands are, strangely enough immersed part way in a finger bowl. Offhand there seems to be nothing wrong with the picture. But the faults are glaring to one who has studied a few rules of etiquette. Even those who are "to the manor born" may well profit by these hints on "How to Eat in Cambridge...
...University has a brand-new diagnosis of the conditions which are causing academic congestion. The trouble, in his opinion, is due not so much to the fact that too many men are going to college as that often the wrong kind of men are going. "The vast majority would profit far more by some other kind of education than that given in the traditional American college", he says...
...assuming that a sifting process of this nature is adopted, that applicants for admission are tested and received or sent away acording as it is determined whether they will profit more from a college course of a corporation course, how are the tests to be applied? Is there any greater human lottery than the youth of eighteen...