Word: meant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more voters into the new party. The remedy lies in justice and fair dealing on both sides. At the present time capital holds the upper hand. It should be the business of capital to meet labor and adjust their differences equally. Though there never was a time when production meant so much to the world, capital and labor bicker and brawl. This cannot go on. The new party shows that the crisis is at hand. It can be averted, but not by any half-way measures. Employer and workingman must come to an understanding; and it looks...
...believe in indirect, representative, legal, constitutional action. The representative has been unseated for speaking and holding to the conviction of his conscience and to the censor us of opinion of his constitute. I still hold my original opinions; but how can I give them expression if the meant have been taken away. My direct action friend was right. There is little chance for me through constitutional action. There is only one thing left for me. From now on I am a man of direct action...
...school education be primarily for the individual and incidentally for the college. Then our boys will develop "not as types poured from a common mould, but as individuals exercising and cultivating those gifts which nature meant to be of use to themselves and the world...
...acclimated to the fierce and aggressive playing of a fighting Princeton team. In other words, the Harvard team found itself during the second half, and prior to this time they had been clearly outplayed by a team which was fully aware of what a real hard, driving contest meant...
...Americanizer is a Syndicalist or a Sovietist, the cure may be worse than the disease. No greater mistake could be made than to imagine that the Syndicalists and Sovietists of America are all foreigners. There is a large body of Americans--if by the term American is meant one born and bred in this country--who support the Russian revolution; and that does not make them Russians. When such a radical Americanizer approaches an immigrant, there is often no Conservative Americanizer present to compete with him. To take a single example: in a recent meeting of steel strikers...