Word: aura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such stories are amusing and a bit startling but the article loses force through its aura of unsubstantiated generalization. The condemnation does not hold for all men who study abroad; many universities, especially the larger institutions, are strict in their selection of scholarship men, and the results justify such a course. But Mr. Axelgaard's investigation is nonetheless valuable. Scholarship grants should obviously not be bestowed on incompetents like Sykes. That they are is due largely to the preposterous trust that America reposes in education, especially foreign education. In turning the sharp light of his wit upon such individual cases...
...active liberal tendencies an opportunity for a more thorough examination of problems, and hence for a more reasonable propaganda than was possible under the old regime. If such a program is adhered to, the Liberal Club should begin to have a value for undergraduates which the past aura of misdirected adolescent enthusiasm has denied...
Wearing the aura of perfect, slightly homosexual manhood often given by the English universities, along with their diplomas, to their handsomer graduates, Author Ackerley takes a trip to India to tutor a native Maharajah's son, aged two years. In Chhokrapur (a fictitious name for the Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...
Finally, Republican delegates will pursue their labored antics in as gloomy an aura of depression as their party has yet experienced. Aside from an ardent discipleship of Mellon methods which led managers to underestimate by $35,000 the total cost of the jamboree, it has become painfully necessary to lower the price of mezzannine seats from $100 to $40. Moreover, by chartering the arena for the weeks following the Republican convention, Democratic leaders have managed to chalk up to the G. O. P. ledger some $15,000 worth of staging and decoration. The show...
...issue with an up-to-the-moment article?a "last talk" with the late Ivar Kreuger, recorded by his good friend & admirer, Isaac Frederick Marcosson, able tycoon interviewer. Although the "last talk" was an innocuous compendium of Herr Kreuger's views on international finance, its publication indirectly certified the aura of greatness surrounding the matchmaker and moneylender who had shot himself (TIME, March...