Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief pilot for the St. Louis-Chicago air mail route. He is a prominent member of the Caterpillar Club, having four times become a butterfly and descended to earth in a parachute. In the Missouri National Guard he earned the rank of captain. As his next exploit, he is considering a flight from California to Australia (6,500 miles), with a stop at Hawaii...
Harvard might conceivably exploit the idea. The attractiveness of Memorial Hall could be enhanced by casual statues of local celebreties performing their usual functions; an obelisk glorifying the American old clothes man, a genre subject portraying a Senior preparing for Divisionals, tennis racquet in one hand and theatre tickets in the other; portrait of a Freshman donning last season's white flannels for this year's Jubilees; whole flocks of pathetic sublimities are available. But there would be conscientious objectors who would remonstrate that architecture was being over-emphasized, the certain things could will be omitted from eternal memory...
...hijacker." The "hijacker" confines his activities to the bootlegging profession. He is the strong boy who lets his victim run rum, then robs him of it-or buys it at a low price with violence. "Muscle men" regard all weaker criminals as their prey. A "muscle man" exploit that came to light last week in Chicago, was the chaining of one Sappho Jo Lawro and his partner, one Jakie Adler, proprietors of the Midnight Frolics Cafe, to iron bedsteads, and keeping them there for five days at pistol-point, until they paid over $100,000. Messrs. Lawro and Adler, evidently...
...York Times spoke out too, saying in connection with its employe's attempted exploit: "Though it may be true that a wise question is half of wisdom, it is also true that even a fool can ask questions which a wise man cannot answer...
...Elements in the Christian church to which the community has a right to look for enlightened spiritual guidance are scrambling to exploit childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing...