Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed directing the Attorney General to furnish the House with the names of the two Congressmen involved and the charges against them. Representative Longworth, Republican Floor Leader, exclaimed: "The discussion of this subject revolts me. ... In either case, by passing this resolution we will have done the one thing that men of honor ought to do when the membership and the honor of their body is assailed." Representative F. J. Garrett, Democratic Floor Leader, exclaimed: "It is a very peculiar situation. I know of no precedent. ... It seems to me not only proper but extremely necessary that there should...
Before reaching his discussion of business as we understand it today, Mr. Swope traced the growth of industry and trade. The first thing that prompted business was service. "Men", he said, "exchanged products to save time, and to save labor. Then as communities grew, matters became more complex. You first had the country stores, which were finally grouped together into larger unions. Then came the chain stores, and our large department stores. Now our cities have grown so rapidly that the status of economic conditions has not kept pace with them, for the waste in the distribution of food products...
...swimming pool, and additional indoor athletic plants," he continued, "and we are required to pay part of the expenses of the Department of Hygiene as well as operate four athletic buildings, our annual surplus will not stand any further burden. A golf course would certainly be a fine thing to have, but it means an expenditure of between two and three hundred thousand dollars. Moreover, one difficulty with a college golf course is that the students are not around during the biggest part of the playing season. The fact that many of the students would take up golf...
...relies of the Middle Ages. They practice a legerdemain with the words 'scholarship', 'faith', and 'creeds', with a result that they finish with the general impression that everything is all right--let scholars study; let believers believe, but don't have any controversy about anything. Unity is a good thing, but truth is a better thing. Comfort is a good thing, but truth is a better thing, Clergymen must get over the idea that their main relation to individuals is to make them feel comfortable religiously. That is what the conservative religious church member particularly wishes to retain...
...whose native tongue is English will not be admitted unless his work in English is passable. The question then arises whether the present generation of sub freshmen talk and write worse English than the one preceding, and whether that generation fell short in this respect of its senior. One thing is certain, at all events, and that is that the present crop of freshmen at Harvard and elsewhere are nothing much when it comes to talking and writing English. It is not entirely the fault of these unhappy youths that this should be the untoward fact, for there are many...