Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Certainly the term "collective bargaining" should be more clearly defined. To most of us it has become a vague phrase describing "bargaining" of weird sorts and "collecting" in various ways...
...that Mister Laski, not Professor, as the papers state, has taken the field again on he side of the down-troden union man. His address was to the women folk of the striking policemen. For the conclusion of his address the newspapers quoted the phrase, "Labor will never yield." Perhaps Mr. Laski will state what it is that labor thus tenaciously clings to and enunciate clearly the principle he is talking...
...writer of the editorial in the Harvard Magazine calls for "professional spirit" on the part of the CRIMSON editors. In that phrase one seems to feel the heavy hand of maturity. Perhaps the voice of some graduate student speaks, who has recently come to know the joy of sustained effort in preparation for a profession. It is worthy of note that CRIMSON editors (at least after they have made the board) sometimes attend lectures; that they are undergraduates; and that they have not long here below in this college world. When the CRIMSON editor has worked through the grades...
...With the demobilization of allied armies since the armistice and the liberal granting of furloughs and leaves to those not yet discharged from service, the organization has grown into a recognized and thoroughly representative body. The objects of the Congress may be summed up in that characteristic American phrase of which Capt. Ian Hay Beith could not rob us even by adoption, namely, "Getting Together...
...Universities have decided that the Latin phrase-book is too hard for the American brain. It is difficult and unnecessary. The real reason that our Universities are throwing over Latin is that Latin has been badly taught, and it is easier to throw Latin over than to bring in good teaching. But what a calamitous state for the learned...