Word: aladdin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties have been overcome with remarkable skill and with daring energy. The planning vision of Dean Donham and the magnificent generosity of Mr. Baker have raised an edifice surpassing the dreams of those who assisted in its modest beginning. Indeed, to an outside observer, it seems to be an Aladdin-like creation--these stately buildings arising overnight from a swamp, this provision of every imaginable facility. And truly there has been a magic at work, a creative imagination embodying in material forms a spiritual force. The first donors, backing an un- formulated project, the many early helpers among business...
...possible that these famed undergraduates could be so upset at a munificent gift, attached to a clause that the Houses to be built with the money be lived in--dormitories which read like Aladdin's Fairy Palaces? Even the magazines for the tables have been minutely listed, to avoid slighting any individual taste. A secret suspicion occurs to us--can it be--softly, while we whisper--perhaps it is only Harvard's pride in its "indifference" that is offended! It may be that they are resenting this assumption that they are like any other students, that their welfare must...
When he said: "I wish that there was a Magruder in every Department of the Government" (TIME, Oct. 3), Senator William Edgar Borah may have had Aladdin's lamp in his ample lap. A moon had not passed when, last week at San Diego, Calif., there rose up another "Magruder," this time in the Department...
Shortly the unfortunate car owners discovered that their entire fleet had been spirited away like Aladdin's famous castle. They searched and searched, and at last found the garage man and paid him storage. A few, not realizing the colossal sense of humor of the Police Department, are still looking for them. Some of the more literal minded son's went so far as to ask the police to justify their joke. They should have caught the spirit of the thing and remembered that there is always a clause which can be stretched to cover any case. Of course their...
Representative Frear, on the younger son: "A probe should be made into some of the reputed Aladdin lamp transactions that finally called for action by the Secretary of War and the President of the United States...