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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cookie-pusher. Members of this species may and very often do work, and could not be classed as loafers by any means. They have very exalted opinions of their ability to charm the female sex, and if you crowd them right close, they might reluctantly admit that they belong to the sheik class. As a rule they have more activity in their feet than in their heads. In fact, they are entirely too light at both ends. They exist in the South, North, East, and West, and not in the South alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1927 | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...better suited to developing and advancing real leaders in public affairs, rather than mere successful office-seekers. It better safeguards majority rule because the majority on any question is made up of aggregated minorities and all considerable minorities must be represented if the majorities to which they belong are to have their rightful control. It also gives better assurance that decisions will rest upon correct information and open minded discussions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGINEERING SCHOOL PROFESSOR LAUDS "P. R." | 2/4/1927 | See Source »

...Princeton graduate living in Indianapolis. He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus. His position in national letters is analogous to what Princeton feels. The Henry van Dykes, ever revered, belong to an age gone by. The Scott Fitzgeralds, ever provocative, may belong to an age to come. The Tarkingtons, craftsmen and satirists whose conscience and good manners are not disturbed by the heady elixir of "modernism," belong certainly to the present and may be depended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes: Non-Fiction | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Federation and has become the leader in the United States in the matter of rules of competition. It is not merely an advisory body but an administrative one to which all the larger eastern colleges and such western and middle western institutions as Michigan, California, Stanford, and Southern California belong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I. C. 4 A SUPPORTS STAND OF OLYMPIC COMMITTEE | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

...come around to the schoolyards at intermission time," said President Mrs. J. G. Skinner, "and get the children to gamble away their lunch money. That, and the punchboards, are making thieves of children. They take money that doesn't belong to them from their homes, and I know cases in which children have taken punches on their mothers' bills. My telephone is busy all day and half the night with mothers and other persons who want something done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: P.B.K.T.B. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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