Word: uttered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commenting on the question of the reduction of wages earlier in the interview, Mr. Gompers declared that "the reduction of wages as a means to the improvement of business is utter...
Successive defeats contain small encouragement for a team that is handicapped in its development by an utter lack of proper facilities. Swimming at Harvard is constantly waging an uphill fight for the reason that few men care to come out for a sport, provision for which is so palpably neglected. The absence of a pool here is directly responsible for the scanty interest displayed in swimming and the resultant failure of the team to score even a few victories over its opponents...
...classmate, the late Frederic Schenck and in conclusion wrote: "If I felt sure that the book deserved such honour it should be dedicated to his brave and happy memory." Of the many gracious things that Mr. Wendell has said probably none reveals so clearly the modesty, the utter absence of smug self-satisfaction, that was perhaps the most endearing quality of the teacher...
Granting that these objections exist, do they justify the utter relinquishment, of our postal flying experiments? The New York-Chicago service has maintained an unprecedented regularity of flights, even under the disadvantage of severe winter conditions and in spite of the disturbing accidents which have in several instances resulted fatally. Those who are convinced that mail by airplane is foredoomed to failure point to the recent retirement of a British air mail concern from the cross-channel route on the ground that winter flying did not pay. Certainly aerial letter-carrying has not yet reached the point where...
...most obvious defect in the show is the utter lack of substantial music. Tunes there are in plenty, but none carries a rhythm that lends itself to memory; several start out promisingly enough, but after the first few bars, falter and lapse into inconsequential airs. Notwithstanding this handicap, however, which is quite offset by a wealth of Billy Van comedy, the piece provides a non-brain taxing, enjoyable evening. And as for the French joke on the red card,--something not new but done in a different way,--it must be heard to be appreciated...