Word: surest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good securities are among the surest and the least troublesome income-producers you can possibly leave to your dependents. Their income will supplement your own personal earnings while you live. When you go, their income-producing qualities will continue unimpaired...
...feel that by giving the small investor a chance to participate in the profits made in a sound enterprise is the surest way to prevent dishonesty and losses to those who can ill afford them...
This is not done at Harvard. Perhaps the first obstacle in the way is the official fear that information may be mishandled in the presentation, and the conviction that the surest preventative is to withold information. There may also exist the belief that official disbursement of publicity material will be interpreted as the activity of a university anxious to find itself on the front pages as often as possible. But it is definite lack of appreciation of the meaning and value of properly controlled publicity that is assuredly present in circles of Harvard authority...
...vague and indefinite attacks on those doing what they can to remedy, or at last to palliate, the conditions in our slums. Far from giving any constructive criticism as to how this may be done, although you big-heartedly admit that the "Prevention of crime and delinquency..is the surest way of creating social stability" and that "the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters", you offer no adverse criticism except general mudslinging. Picking on a statement of one who is attempting to help and really serve his fellow men, in which he states that...
...last few years there has been a change in attitude toward social service, a change which a letter in this column today deplores. Realizing that prevention of crime and delinquency, that improvement in standards among the poor, is the surest way of creating social stability, the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters. Agitation for permanent reform, for enlightened democracy has seemed more intelligent than the drops in the bucket of individual slumming. This attitude has been furthered, of course, by the blatant antics of "service" clubs and that business men who have found that...