1 The Bureau invited continued cooperation with benevolent societies, and declared: "It will be the object of all commissioners to introduce practicable systems of compensated labor," and to establish schools.
2 To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements comprising the white South was Mr. Washington's first task; and this, at the time Tuskegee was founded, seemed, for a black man, well-nigh impossible.
3 The rich and dominating North, however, was not only weary of the race problem, but was investing largely in Southern enterprises, and welcomed any method of peaceful cooperation.
4 Next, there are the political relations, the cooperation in social control, in group government, in laying and paying the burden of taxation.
5 And yet with all this there are many essential elements in the cooperation of Negroes and whites for work and wealth that are too readily overlooked or not thoroughly understood.
6 Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity.
7 As I remember it now, the thing that was uppermost in my mind was the desire to say something that would cement the friendship of the races and bring about hearty cooperation between them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIV. 8 Now, my dear fellow, in the matter of these explanations, we have, if I may ask for your cooperation, a hard and dangerous night's work in front of us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 9 In no instance, let us say, was this worthy gentleman accused of deriving personal advantage from the cooperation of his minions.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 10 Fyodor came from a village at some distance from the one in which Levin had once allotted land to his cooperative association.
11 Some of these places were kept by private persons, some were cooperative.
12 Mr. Starbuck, mind that cooper don't waste the spare staves.
13 The title was, "Dan Coopman," wherefore I concluded that this must be the invaluable memoirs of some Amsterdam cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper.
14 The palace of Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 15 The shoemaking and mending, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grinding, were all performed by the slaves on the home plantation.