Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...them. But then again one sees only the sublime doggedness of their one highest ideal-resisting compromise. The play in short sets one thinking, sets one contemplating a great ungathered people's fate as well at its own as at others' hands. Mr. Davis has proved himself behind certain crudities of technique, a playwright of power...
...ignore the athlete but it is impractical to crowd out a man who will be serviceable to the class merely because he has not contributed to victories on the gridiron or on the river. A fusion of the two elements is generally possible. The larger the vote the more certain it will be that the fusion has been made to the satisfaction of the class as a whole...
...CRIMSON supposes that when this custom was inaugurated it was reasoned that the members of a second team, more particularly in baseball perhaps than in football, have practically no chance of earning the "H" which almost every man on the first squad under certain conditions might receive. As some reward is due them the "H 2nd" was devised and the substitutes for the first team were considered to have enough chance for reward sooner or later without any further complexity of insignia...
...method has now been changed and the selection of the detective, as well as his dismissal, depends wholly on the commissioner. He has also been given the right to promote any detective, with the result that a far greater activity has been recently shown in this work. During a certain period in 1906, 2000 men were arrested and 300 convicted; during the same space of time in 1908, 4300 men were arrested and 1600 convicted. The greater portion of these men were pick-pockets and burglars. Various methods of detective work are used to capture the criminals; some...
...crime is on the increase, because, up to last year, only an imperfect and fragmentary record of the cases was kept. The policeman is not really responsible for the inefficiency of the force. If an over-zealous officer arrests a man who is influential in his ward, he is certain to get into trouble; if he makes too many arrests, he becomes disliked by the other policemen and by the sergeant. On the other hand, if he neglects his duties, he gets the favor of the ward politician and promotion follows. Until the police department is taken out of politics...