Word: accordingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remain personally indifferent to what machinery is set up to prevent cribbing, as has been proved at Yale. On the other hand, the policy of no supervision is merely a concession to the minority, those who detract from the value of education and are themselves least in accord with the desired scholastic attitude...
...privilege of successful genius to demand its due and the desire of the populace to accord it, especially if no material consideration is involved. But in the partisanship of the Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well...
...misrepresentation. Whether or not the portrayal is incorrect is beside the point, for the reports of the Germans themselves fail to concur. But the fact remains that the subject was banned from England as unfit for reproduction on the screen, since it might be provocative of feeling not in accord with a spirit of pacification...
...Keyserling's chief evidence in support of his statement, it is interesting to observe, is the prohibition problem. To the European mind it is a accepted theory that women are responsible for prohibition. They are accredited with bullying men into supporting a regulation which they formulated of their own accord and by sheer domination having it made into law. Furthermore, the woman politician has just begun her "epidemic of lawmaking" according to Count Keyserling. He paints a gloomy picture of a country reduced to the bondage of minor social laws about which the masculine politician has little or nothing...
...death, with the rest of his collection in his Philadelphia house. Last week, British connoisseurs who viewed the collection of Lord Iveagh, shown to the public in London last week, discovered another Guitar Player, very similar to the Guitar Player in the Johnson collection. This they said with one accord, was the genuine Vermeer; the painting in the U. S. was a replica, a copy, an imitation, anything except the original Guitar Player by Jan Vermeer der Delft...