Word: overstepping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...higher import than the just relations of capital and labor. The organization of capital, which is a normal and logical development of our times, should welcome reasonable laws which place wholesome restraints upon its activities, so that through competition or otherwise it will not be induced or forced to overstep the safeguards of industrial rights and block the highways of opportunity for the humblest citizen of the land. There can be no liberty without opportunity, and to the extent that opportunity is abridged, whether by the state or by cor- porate power, it is denial of liberty. It is oppression...
...rattle" the opposing side, as it is to the effort of a few men who hold temporary positions as cheer leaders. Anyone who has witnessed the important intercollegiate games of the past few years will realize this fact. Organized cheering is perfectly legitimate if it is not allowed to overstep its bounds; it is a pleasant thing to hear a college show its faith in its team. When, however, men are appointed to see that each section of the grandstands makes all the noise possible, then cheering has reached the "attempt to rattle" stage...
...cordial expression of generous appreciation of every neat performance, whether by the friends we love or by the foes we ought to cherish. Let all allowances be made for excusable and inoffensive partisanship,--barring the unmelodious horn of cracked tin,--but in our partisan enthusiasm let us not overstep the boundaries of courtesy. Even among the ancient Hebrews, whose code demanded eye for eye and tooth for tooth, the stranger who was in their camp, within their gates, was to be left unvexed and unoppressed...