Word: striving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This period in which we are living today is a period of inflation--a huge bubble. Sooner or later that bubble must burst. Let us, then, strengthen our foundations and principles, so that we may have something firm and solid beneath us, rather than strive, by unproved theories and sweet-sounding phrases to prick the bubble and let ourselves fall into--what? This is what we want to find out. What is there in store for this country should we adopt Socialistic or Soviet doctrines...
...evident that regulation can only extend to college activities; clubs, dances and the theatre will have lost none of their charm. The practice of holding competitions provides an automatic check on usurpation in itself; an energetic man must surely find a field for his endeavors if he cares to strive for it under the present system...
...tell why. If we dislike it, let us propose constructive changes. These questions are vital. The world has never before offered so many problems. There has never been such hope for great constructive reform. We can not afford to shirk the issue; we should all strive to contribute some real experience to the cause, and remember that any honest conclusion we may reach is of value...
...could not strive for Peace so hard...
...question of race equality as put forward at the peace conference involves not only the race question proper, but also the economic question of immigration of a type of labor which does not strive for a standard of living equal to our own. Japan, with reference to the Chinese recognizes this economic phase of the question. Only recently a large number of Chinese laborers who were brought to Japan under contract to work for fifty cents a day for three years were sent home at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Japanese company that imported the Chinese...