Word: brands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joyce's brand of patriotism would exaggerate that self-complacency which often makes the United States unpopular. The unbalanced patriotism inspired by the teaching of myth as history is necessarily intolerant, in peace as well as in war and blind prejudice in the present is the product of false interpretations of history. America, in following the precepts of Mr. Joyce, would fool no one but itself; but as Bertrand Russell insists, its monstrous self-deception would become a menace to international civilization. If democracy is to survive as a stable form of government, it must be guided by an impartial...
...undergraduates, for it is not often that any two men regard a course in precisely the same light. If the CRIMSON desires to function as a mentor it should be able to provide something more dependable than the unsupported say-so of some individual editor who remains anonymous. To brand a course as worthless, or an instructor as incompetent, on the testimony of one student among several hundred is hardly in accord with the amenities of clean journalism or true sportsmanship...
...this concession, slight as it is, is denied Freshmen. Yale evidently entertains suspicions of all young men who have not been inoculated against moral disaster by a year of her special brand of religious nursing. "The incoming Freshmen," says the report, "will still be required to attend every day, their service coming at an earlier part of the morning...
...United Wine Growers and Dealers of Germany sent President von Hindenburg (a moderate consumer) samples of all the different wines grown in Germany. It was said that the President's wine cellar was so well stocked that he may, without once repeating, taste a different brand of wine each day for several weeks...
...Light of the Western Stars, by Zane Grey, gives Mr. Noah Beery an opportunity to express, by flexing his facial muscles, lust, anger, confidence, contempt for his enemies as one Brand, who always gives his victims the choice between paying him $10,000 down or taking the walk of death, haha. He has designs upon a girl. Her true love, a surefooted, sound-toothed Benedict bowls Brand over...