Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought to light the tremendous amount of lobbying done in this country. The Bureau of Commerce at Washington should be able to make available to congressmen and senators in an impartial manner facts about the pending laws. I am opposed to lobbying, as it is practiced here in America, but I suppose it can hardly be avoided when there are only two major parties...
...often wonder," he told a CRIMSON reporter last night, "why Harvard University doesn't take more of a hand in the matter, why it doesn't try to prevent that gang of low politicians from making this city the laughing stock of America: but," he added, after a contemplative pause, "I guess Harvard's got troubles enough of its own with its football team...
...that remark seemed to switch his mind to prohibition, and he murmured bitterly: "Do you know what the trouble with prohibition is" Every one in America is so busy drinking they don't give it a thought...
...former terrors. The pace of the average freshman across the campus no longer bears any relation to that of the snail. Education has been made as painless as possible. If, in easing entrance requirements so as to admit the vast numbers who are now candidates for degrees in America, the college authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy-sixth year, Dr. Butler reminded them of the gruelling entrance tests of fifty years ago. He was frank enough...
Immediately after refuelling, the far-famed oriental prophet set off for America with his exact destination unannounced...