Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great pity is that today strikes such as this was hastily patched up without any provisions to avoid future difficulties of the same sort. The public is temporarily shocked, some one produces a makeshift never based on a scientific investigation, peace is proclaimed (but a peace which is merely an armed trace), the public sits back, breathes a sigh of relief and forgets all about it. Industrial Conferences sit at Washington, break up and sit again, but leave us no nearer a definite industrial code or method of settling strikes than we were before...
...truth is that the public consciences has not awakened to the need for constructive measures. There are denunciations of employees on the one hand which are only equaled by denunciations of employers on the other. Yet, with the great amount of industrial unrest now existing, some permanent settlement should be uppermost on the nation's conscience. There are utilities in which strikes cannot be tolerated. But the employees must be given some new guarantees if we are to take away their right, to strike. Above all, there is the need for a sound industrial code, applicable to the whole country...
...strong-arm squad of Boston's best brand-new policeman arrived two hours before the game to subdue the eager mob that threatened (according to the advance press notices) to tear down the Pavilion. After being thoroughly searched, both of the spectators that had come to see the great tussle were allowed to enter and claim their seats under a heavy and constant guard...
...strenuous effort involved in this huge task, and an attack of pneumonia which finally necessitated his discharge from active duty were direct causes of his death. Surely no soldier in the trenches was more plainly a victim of the great war than Professor Johnston. His is the latest name on Harvard's Roll of Honor...
...latest plans for breaking the ice. Despite the bravado of the Cabin Boys from the Charles, the odds have been set at 23 to 13, in favor of the custodians of the puck bag. Past performances give them the edge, for although they lack team-work and have no great individual brilliance, they have undoubtedly made it hot for the University sextet in each session thus far, and it has taken the utmost skill on the part of the latter to squeeze in, every afternoon, and finally outstrip them...