Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first sight this seems to be only an other of labors propositions to be scorned by employers as entirely impracticable. It has, however, one saving grace perhaps two: the workers do not propose to seize private property by force; and they propose to take over plants now idle, not those making profits. In other words there is the recognition that capital and labor are partner. Labor simply asks to be allowed to demonstrate that, if its partner falls, the partnership can be dissolved without loss to itself. If it succeeds in proving the truth of the assertion, the employer will...
...cleaning up the graft in the building trades. When we are asked to be optimistic we are not asked to pass over old evils entirely, but to keep in mind as of primary importance the future reconstruction of the business world. Optimists beg the public not to lose sight of the future in its eagerness to condemn the past...
...fourth choice is to go in a sight-seeing bus which will leave Harvard Square late Friday afternoon and will return Sunday afternoon. The fare will be $10 for the round trip...
...Observe that the cases I have mention of losing the true end from sight are those of men essentially good. There are bad men who intend to do wrong. Perhaps there would be little use in preaching to them; and it is probable that the aggregate inability of mankind to reach a higher level is due less to deliberate wrongdoing than to the defects of men who mean on the whole to do right. Jonah did no harm in the parable because God disposed otherwise; he lost sight of his object, not because he could not see it, but because...
...despise the things by which mankind must live, but the great mass of men have erred in the other direction, by seeking only the things of the present. True religion and spiritual wisdom consist in regarding the lower as steps to the higher, without losing sight of the end to which they are only a means...