Word: strives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motive of deep significance; a move toward truth in advertising. One can sell an article by loud-mouthed shouting after the fashion of a side-show barker, or by an honest effort to set the facts before the purchaser. The same movement is seen in the newspapers which strive first of all for an impartial presenting of events--facts alone--in the news columns. Some periodicals have carried this reform to the advertising pages; they investigate the truth of what they publish. And why not? The day has come when one looks askance at the garish appeals...
...reason that the system has not yet been successful is not far to seek. Hitherto neither the College Office, the Senior class, or the Freshmen have taken an strive interest in its workings. Realizing this to be the case, efforts have been made this year to attach more importance to the work of advising...
...clear that if the university is to help, the world as well as the individuals under its immediate influence it must strive after something more than more culture. But is this true of the college proper? Harvard men sometimes account it a hardship to be forced to accept an S.B. rather than an A.B. simply because they entered college without Latin. When generations of graduates have found that college training made life sufficiently more interesting as to warrant their sending their sons back to the old institutions, is it surprising that alumni become anxious lest the modern college become...
...teach us that we have nothing to gain from delay. Friendly relations with Great Britain--commercial relations, in particular--can in the long run best be preserved by solving each problem as it arises. In justice to the American citizens whose interests were impaired, the Harding administration should strive for the immediate settlement of these claims...
...happy solution of the labor problem depends upon the free play of the law of supply and demand. Manufacturers will always charge for their product as much as the public need will stand; laborers will likewise strive to exact from their employers the maximum compensation for their services. Ultimately it is the consumer who pays. If we would preserve American prosperity, we must maintain the only satisfactory compromise between wage slavery and the autocracy of labor,--the open shop. The suppression of individual bargaining would be of inestimable value to the unions; armed with a monopoly of production they would...