Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, who may fairly be said to represent the big employers of labor, said in a recent public utterance: " America is faced by a shortage of labor, due principally to the laws restricting immigration. These laws as passed are the worst thing that ever happened to this country economically. There is a great abundance of labor on the other side of the water that would be glad to come over and develop our resources...
...semi-annual general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to send their children through high school and stop. The average college graduate, said the learned Bishop," knows a lot about books but don't know scarcely anything about how to do a thing in a practical way." Bishop Nibley would amend Mr. Vanderlip's statement to read "western high school graduate...
...wealthy, aristocratic landowner, for Johannes, the miller's son. There is not much " story" in the accepted sense, but rather a finespun mood of a sensitive girl whose injustice to her lover brings about tragedy. Hamsun rarely unwinds a yarn merely for the fun of the thing. He is chiefly interested in the representation of subtle soul-moods and situations motivated by the temperament rather than by violent action...
...lines to express what I believe to be the most important thing that anyone of my passing generation can say to the generation which is now in college and which in a few years' time will be taking over from the hands of those who now control them the destinies of the nations of the world...
...Rudyard Kipling once said some thing very clever about "the female of the species" and he has been quoted with exasperating reiteration. Yet there are times when the phrase his cynical genius coined is the only remark adequate to the situation. It must have been on many men's lips during the past week's whirl at the D. A. R. Convention in Washington...