Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term has an ethical content and has come to symbolize the effort that is being made by the National Association to raise the standards throughout this country and Canada of the real estate brokerage business. Tremendous progress has been made in this respect and a great deal if not most of it is due to the effectiveness and value of the term "Realtor" in symbolizing this effort...
...defense easily twisted into an admission that the treaty did not mean very much of anything anyhow. Meanwhile the fact remained that the treaty would, in all probability pass the Senate, and the prevailing opinion seemed to be that no reservations would be attached to it. Mr. Borah may come out, however, not so much with an instrument that "outlaws war" as with a guarded and general international announcement that war is an extremely deplorable weapon to be used only when a nation really feels it must...
...Negro was soon captured. He sought shelter in the home of his brother. Oddly, the brother telephoned one Laura May Keiler, plantation owner, told her to "come and get Charlie." She came. She found Charlie. He had a Winchester rifle and a pistol; she had a shotgun. "Put those down, Charlie," she said. He put them down, surrendered, was turned over to National Guardsmen, called out by Mississippi's Governor Bilbo...
...will contribute to the cultural life of the university in yet another way. It may be the key to the cerebral lock of some individuals whose intellectual potentialities can be opened by no other instrument. It is a matter of common observation that, although there are some students who come to college with an enlightened zest for intellectual pursuits and others who will be forever incapable of such experiences, there are many, not without potentialities, who go through the university unscorched by the cultural torch...
Most Americans come to college without cultural background, without an intimation that the contemplative factor in life is one of the supreme experiences, even more thrilling than kicking a goal from the field in the stadium. Psychopathology, because it is a new subject, and because it deals with the spirit of man in all its vigorous vagaries, progressive and regressive, and hence is the subject par excellence for the pre-occupation of man, has the necessary explosives for lighting the intellectual fuse in the minds of at least some undergraduates. No young man should go through college unburned. It does...