Word: need
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...this country," said Daniel Willard the other day, "we have everything we need. We have not been crippled by war. We have not passed through any disasters. We have not lost a million men. We produce more than any nation in the world. We are the richest country on earth and have the smallest debt. What reason can there be for pessimism...
...politics and administration or in scientific or statistical work of a more specialized type. Others have gone into industry as consulting chemists and geologists, or into the newer fields of industrial research. Still others will be found in literary work or social service. With the increasing recognition of the need of experts in American life, the field has greatly broadened and the demand for highly trained specialists has grown much faster than the supply. A university president once remarked that what we need is not narrow men but broad men sharpened to a point. That is the kind...
...report that many firms and corporations have been unable to find the money with which to pay their last instalment of the income tax for last year is not surprising. It but fulfills the predictions of economic prophets, and reveals the need for a change in the income tax laws themselves...
...child alive for a month; ten dollars will keep a child until the next harvest. Even ten cents will be gratefully received and will help nourish one of the starving. No matter, therefore, how restricted a student may be himself, he can contribute his mite to those who need it most. When well-off fellows reflect that the price of a theatre ticket will feed a little boy or girl in Vienna or Warsaw for a month, he can hardly doubt how to spend...
...Without question the biggest need in connection with industrial unrest is jobs,--steadier jobs, better jobs, jobs whose value and importance to other people and the world in general is better understood by the doers of them, jobs under officials who are more anxious to aid the full enjoyment of the satisfactions that the doers of those jobs and the renderers of those services feel themselves entitled to enjoy...