Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing I like about the Oxford Group approach is the fact that they say to me, "All right, we agree that present conditions are bad, but how about starting with you? Are you part of the problem or are you part of the answer?" The way they ask the question, however, makes a great deal of difference. They do not ask it in a belligerent or combative tone, but in a tone which has a kindly approach, which disarms antagonism, and leads to constructive cooperation...
Pointing out that A. F. of L. was ready to compromise on the question of industrial unionism for mass production industries and had even agreed tentatively to a curb on the powers of its executive committee, the editorial went on to say that the ''amazing thing" was that the "logical and workable solution" of the remaining difficulties was "completely tossed out of the window." This proposal was to set up joint subcommittees to settle the jurisdictional claims of rival C. I. O. & A. F. of L. unions, subsequently allowing the original C. I. 0. unions to return...
...wrong for the Class Day Committee thus to allow itself little concern. Seniors are and should be greatly interested in making their graduation a bigger and better thing. An intelligent committee can always improve the occasion...
...measure MSS by the number of words and not by the sheet or page. I even proposed that he ask his instructors in this course to follow the common practice. He received my suggestion with manifest horror and told me he could not think of doing such a thing...
...women and children in a mass suicide against the Dutch guns. The men, armed only with swords, go down like tenpins. The women kill their children, then themselves. This invincible heroism, says Author Baum, taught the Dutch to rule the conquered Balinese with a loose rein. One thing the prudish Dutchmen did insist on: that the satiny brown-skinned Balinese women cover their beautiful breasts...