Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like a white light thrown upon the weaknesses of a democracy is the knowledge that in America a plan for early selectivity would be hooted down with yells varying from "unconstitutional" to "dirty race prejudice." Such accusations, would contain a mead of truth. Any man, it has been said, may in America have an education; not infrequently the statement's scope has been widened to include a university education. Ambitious America thirsts after learning; because that thirst went unrecognized until the teens had stolen upon the box is no reason, in the American tradition, for a refusal to appease...
...many a U. S. newspaper which profits from quack-advertisements. Presumably, enough whiskey continues available in the U. S. to gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac-a useless and fake dope against alcoholism, declares the American Medical Association...
...building will contain a complete collection of the writings of Royce as a perpetual reminder of his thought and spirit and the fullest means of access to them...
...Pillionnel, instructor in the French Department, is soon to issue a volume of poetry entitled "Poemes D'Amerique", which is based on his ten year's stay in this country. The volume will contain a variety of short spontaneous lyrics, and a long epic on the question of prohibition. The chief interest of the epic lies in M. Pillionnel's novel means of presentation, for he has combined the advantage of his French viewpoint with a keen sense of humor to portray prohibition as a saint fighting the evils of liquor after their long sway in pre-prohibition days...
...your own very discriminating and happy observations of her career at Harvard. The humor, no less than the substance, of your praise of her accuracy and dependability would have gratified her Irish soul. When the University Gazette was started we had a solemn understanding that it was to contain no mistakes, whether of fact or of typography: the Gazette could do no wrong. No one could have come nearer to this impossible ideal than Miss Mullen, and I am glad to infer from your comments that the tradition of infallibility was maintained...