Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Judge Gaynor said that the obligations of the educated young man to the community are to preserve the rights of the individual and through them the freedom of our government. Personal freedom is emphatically at the bottom of our government and to preserve it against arbitrary control should be the purpose of the college man. Political problems, such as the tariff and socialism, should be dealt with rationally. Constructive policy and a fixed purpose persistently followed lead to success. The government must be kept under control; it must control the corporate interests which, through railroad rate discrimination have made trusts...
...reflected up through the open air and carried through a tube in the outer wall of the observing room to the eye-piece. Light from an object under observation undergoes three reflections before it reaches the observer. It is first received by the 60-inch mirror at the bottom of the tube, which throws it up to a second small mirror mounted centrally within and near the end of the tube. The second mirror returns the light down the tube to a third mirror, and by this it is reflected through the air to the eye-piece, in front...
...present heard a frank and sincere statement of what can be done practically to solve the burning municipal problem. There was no theory, no meaningless generalizations; simply a straightforward talk from a man, who, not content with the conclusion that municipal government is a failure, is working from the bottom up, by determining the defects that make possible political corruption in our cities...
...prosecution of the corrupt politicians in San Francisco, some of the minor offenders had to be pardoned because they were the only sources of legal evidence necessary to convict the higher officials who were at the bottom of the corruption. The aim in all this was to show young men and women that dishonesty does not pay and that no person is above the law because he is wealthy...
...pins instead of swivel-rowlocks is supposed to give a firmer catch at the beginning of the stroke, afford the men a support to press against on the swing forward, and provide a means of telling when the members of the crew shoot their hands away in unison. The bottom of the boat is broader and flatter than the ordinary American shell...