Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profiteer and the capitalist who stirs college youth to critical expression in these days so much as George F. Babbitt, his rotarian friends and the hosts of the "stodgy" and the commonplace. The Opposition in college today is not composed of the rigid economic dogmatists of yesterday with fixed ideas on the distribution of wealth, labor unions and the revolution, but rather is it made up of the care-free, mentally and morally loose-jointed "flapper" whose twin passions are disrespect and personal nonesty and whose favorite word is "moron." It is all very gay and most earnestly flippant. Evans...
...causes are not necessarily to be found in a deep-laid capitalist plot. Rather, they arise out of the present course of study and the insufficiency of funds to carry out its complexities. Labor insists on many technical course, middle-class people want cultural courses. Between the two, harassed school officials have been forced to take refuge in a highly organized system of education in order to handle an increased demand for varied studies in the face of a constant supply on money...
Married. John Borden, 41, Chicago capitalist and Arctic explorer, to Mrs. Courtney Letts Stillwell, 28; in Washington, D. C. They both obtained divorces within the past year...
...cause of Harvard and the advancement of education were necessarily many. Of his service to the nation: "Dr. Eliot is a leader and a prophet of the people in the true sense. His primacy in all educational reform, his interest in adjusting the equities of the laborer and the capitalist, and the useful candor with which he points out the shortcomings of each, his abiding enthusiasm for the promotion of municipal governments in which the welfare of the citizen is most intimately bound up, his yearning for the enlargement of the lungs of congested cities in parks and playgrounds...
About five years ago, Samuel Untermyer, famed lawyer and capitalist, purchased a 32-acre tract at Palm Beach for $75,000. Critics at the time declared the price excessively high. Lawyer Untermyer held on till recently, when he vindicated his judgment by selling out his ocean-front property for $775,000-a profit of nearly...