Word: warding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lincoln, Neb. (population: 71,100) professional money-getters (Ward, Wells & Dreshman) raised $146,819, exceeding last year...
Before a railroad may build a new line, it must make application to its stern guardian, the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Commission may or may not look favorably on the petition of its ward. Last week for the first time the I.C.C., without waiting to be asked by a railroad, commanded the Union Pacific to build 185 miles of new line. This assumption that the Commission has positive as well as negative, executive as well as judicial power over the railroads of the land will probably be bitterly contested by the railroads...
...local agents of the Watch and Ward Society have shown themselves just as adept at making moral distinctions concerning their own actions as concerning the words of authors. Perhaps it is mere layman's thickheadedness that makes one regard "falsehood and deception" as somewhat inconsistent with the highest moral aims. Perhaps it is an indication of profligacy, if one thinks the methods employed in dogging a bookseller until he sells to a supposedly responsible buyer a book starred on the Boston List of Genuine Literature That You Mustn't Read. And doubtless one is being a free-thinker...
...there is another, a pitiful possibility. Can it be that the Book Squad of the Watch and Ward feel harsh twinges of conscience at being obliged to use "falsehood and deception" in their glorious work? Can it be that the stern motto "The end justifies the means" only hides spirits saddened by the quality of those means? If so, it is time for some kind person to take the blindfold from the eyes of the self-made martyrs, and to instruct them, gently, that no one wants to suffer. Then, with the contentment of those who have done their work...
...course there are numerous advantages to this arrangement, such as its excellence as a training possibility for prospective athletes (and jailbirds), the fact that it tends to keep the personnel of Randolph and Apthorp off the streets, and the all-important one from a Watch and Ward point of view, that it keeps the personnel of the streets out of Randolph and Apthorp...