Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yorozu: "The only thing left is to leave the question thus unsettled...
...visitors. In time, the four policemen may safely be reduced to two, and ultimately to one?public curiosity never centres for an undue length of time upon any one subject. Some slight difficulties he has with his keeper, Collins, who is in the beginning not quite cordial. For one thing, his coming had ousted the Gibbon and there is no hiding the fact that Collins would prefer to have the Gibbon back in Mr. Cromartie's place. It had given him less work, and besides, it had never been, at any time in its life, his social superior...
...wondering what it is all about. There is a linguistic stalemate between the generations; the game is off; neither can move on the same board. So that today, when we speak to undergraduates in even the most familiar terms of the language of religion, we mean one thing (the fruit of our maturer reflection and experience) and they think we mean another. The opinion has developed among students that what the older generation means by its religion is neither intelligible nor useful...
...From the workmen's point of view it is an excellent thing for young William Randolph Hearst to have this season of work. He will realize, by actual experience, the truth of the statement made by his father, long ago, before a Congressional committee, that eight hours of hard work is as much as any man should be asked to do, and that the employer that can't make an eight-hour-day PAY is not fit to employ American labor...
...famed British author: "In a Commencement address at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., I made a few remarks in opposition to those magazines of Big Business, known as 'house organs.' Said I: 'One of the features of national intensity which is most open to criticism is the thing called a house organ, which is now unescapable in modern life, designed to focus the collective energy of large enterprises and coordinate the zeal of their departments. These journals are keys to strange chambers in the industrial soul of America. I forget what this particular magazine...