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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surely it cannot show lack of attachment to the principles of the Constitution that she thinks it can be improved. I suppose most intelligent people think it might. Her particular improvement, looking to the abolition of war, seems to me not materially different . . . from a wish to establish Cabinet government or a single House or a term of seven years for the President. ... To touch a more burning question, only a judge mad with partisanship would exclude [from citizenship] because the applicant thought the 18th Amendment should be repealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Woman Without a Country | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...that in all her 300 years she has put on a big front. Harvard never apologizes, never argues, never listens to criticism, but goes on calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that very reason. What applies to the corporation applies also to the individual. . . . You cannot go on the assumption that you are as good as the rest of folks. You should take the attitude that you are a damned sight better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Praise for Snobbery | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...That the most famed Brooklyn Bridge jump ever occurred (Steve Brodie, 1886) cannot be proved. But several others jumped and lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Generous donations of books, pamphlets and manuscripts continue to pour in and these are appreciated as increasing the scope of the collection, but on the other hand they require an augmented staff and cannot remove the necessity for selectively directed purchases. Partial relief in this direction has opportunely appeared through the generosity of the anonymous donor of the $100,000 Florence T. Baker Fund. The income from this Fund is available for the purchase of books and other printed material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

...there on the field, willing and anxious to advance the Green and Gold banner of baseball prestige as far as they are able to do so. They're clean players; they're young players; they're good players. What more can one ask? You who come to the games cannot help but enjoy them. Again we demand--What more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

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