Word: bread
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...smoke and are blessed, or you don't smoke and resort to plebiscites. Suppose smoke, fire and ashes do get into non-smokers' eyes? Where there is smoke there must naturally be fire, cinders, grit, stains on the table cloth, pipe cleaners on the piano, matches in the bread box, and ashes everywhere. They are the cloud of glory the smoker trails after him. They are the outer and visible signs of an inner peace beyond description...
...days of personal contact between employer and wage-carner have long since passed and something must be substituted if the workingman is to feel a contentment and pride in earning his daily bread. Many attempts have been made; yet the problem remains, chiefly because those who understand both the attitude of labor and business administration are few, and hard to find. "It is significant to note," points out Mr. Lytle, "that these cooperative students are quite universally interested in the administrative side of engineering. They are not inclined to slight straight engineering interests but they see the fascination...
...should respect, rather than disregard, the test put upon her friendship, so long as that test is not unreasonable. Should England resume full trade relations with Germany at the; present time, she would be signing the commercial death-warrant of the heroic nation across the Channel. France has asked bread; shall England give a stone...
...liberty which must remain fixed. America's workers cannot accept that proposition. They demand a progressively advancing standard of life. They have an abiding faith in a better future for all mankind. They discard and denounce a system of fixing wages on the sole basis of family budgets and bread bills. Workers are entitled not only to a living, but modern society must provide more than what is understood by the term, "a living." It must concede to all workers a fairer reward for their contribution to society, a contribution without which a progressing civilization is impossible...
...mind of the average graduate now receiving stamped addressed postcards bearing evidence of the cruise of bread cast upon the waters, there is a feeling of perplexity and perhaps indignation. It seems as though his marks are in inverse proportion to his knowledge of the subjects studied. To the man in such a frame of mind, Professor Moore's chapter on "Diagnostic Education" in his book "What is Education?" is reassuring...