Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It was characteristic of Mr. Baker that, while other crime commissioners were talking last week about sharper juries, harsher laws, fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society...
The first twelve chapters concern the source of the ideas, the opinions, the prejudices which now, being the common property of every American mind, explain the mental character of the U. S. The most important book in the schools was McGuffey's Eclectic Reader (of which there have been 122...
The Significance. Mark Sullivan has made a new definition of history. While wars and elections, battles and discoveries are a part of the record of a given period, they are really important only as they hint at the mood or character of the people who take part in them. To...
The trouble began with "The Star Spangled Banner." A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it. So his teacher sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey...
Life today is far removed from the plane on which every man looks out for himself and cares not at all what happens to his neighbor. It altruistic motives are fundamentally lacking in the character of the individual he is usually forced to a realization of the great purpose of...