Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...mean to advocate that the rule be extended to all, because this would only create hard feelings without in the least aiding the situation. If the Union is to be a club wherein every member can consider himself thoroughly at home, however, such privileges as cashing checks cannot be refused. In no way would the Union lose anything, for, not to mention that a Harvard man can be trusted if anyone in the world can, the showing of the bursar's card could be demanded. HERBERT J. WEBER...
...prophet," he says, "so I cannot say what the end will be. . . Take the cloth and hat and cap makers, for instance. This is usually the busiest time of the year for them, but three-quarters of them are out of work. . . . What does this mean? To me it seems to be but the beginning...
What does it mean? No prophet is needed to outline what has happened. Materials and labor are higher in price; the manufacturers have had to charge more for their goods; but now the public has reached the limit of its patience and its buying power. Prices must be reduced, for if the public will not buy how is labor to be paid. To do its part in reduction labor can either offer its services more cheaply or produce more. So far the unions show no signs of taking either step. The return to piece work asked by the cap manufacturers...
Those people who believed that the election of Senator Harding to the Presidency would mean the death of the League of Nations may now take hope. The situation is not nearly so dark as it is painted. The Republican platform pledges the party to work for an international organization in the interests of peace, and it does not condemn as an entirely the present existing league. There is no longer any need for misrepresenting the Republican position which is so evidently at variance with the claims of both Johnson...
...Sixth, that recently the standardization of manufacturing processes has been increasing with such amazing rapidity that there has been a considerable reduction in the cost of commodities. This is a permanent influence of no mean importance and should not be slighted in any consideration of the future of industries, in general...