Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...History Is Bunk." Mr. Henry Ford's remark of four year's ago about history has been duplicated this year by a remark about the Bible. In his John Burroughs' Talks, Chapter 20, Clifton Johnson reports the great naturalist as follows: "One day I was telling him (Ford) what a great book I thought the Bible was ?what noble literature; and he said: ' I haven't read it much, but I tell you what I think?Emerson's books and Thoreau's and yours (Burroughs') will be read after the Bible is forgotten.' " If Mr. Ford knew more history...
...Thomas, "Theatre Tsar," asserted in a communication to The New York Times, that 99% of the enthusiasm lavished on the Moscow Art Theatre was "pure bunk...
...which has resulted in the discovery of those wonderful unknown substances called vitamines" said Mr. H. G. Lythgoe, director of the Division of Food and Drugs of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON on the subject of what he called the "Vitamine Bunk". But I do wish to point at certain abuses which have been made by commercial houses, and the relation of these abuses to our Food and Drug laws and our false advertising...
...person takes more care in his advertising than the proprietary medicine man. He knows the laws, their limitations, the efficiency of enforcement, and knows that outside of food and drug advertisements there is little or no systematic policing of false advertisements. The vitamine bunk shows practically 100 percent efficiency in complying with the advertising laws, but I believe that the continued sale of these products is doomed to failure for purely psychological reasons. A property medicine to be successful, must possess two prime attributes, first, it must have a disagreeable taste or odor and, second, it must show immediate physiological...
...lobby of a hotel, just previous to a banquet of an honorary fraternity, a group of students as they assembled idly discussed "shop". Typical phrases heared at random were: "Why, I haven't cracked that book this semester", "Wasn't that a good line of bunk that I handed out this morning in class, and I got by with it too". "Yes, I set my apparatus up at home, and you know, the resulted checked absolutely". Such remarks can be heard in any student group at any time. What do they mean? Simply this, that the average college student...