Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Education is indicated by the fact that President Harding uses this argument almost solely in his advocacy on the Department of Welfare. It is the programme of national activity in education worked out in the Sterling-Towner bill that gives any basis at all for the creation of a new department. Then why not accept this programe and incorporate it with the welfare proposal into a combined Department of Education and Welfare? This is not ideal, but at least it offers a common-sense way of satisfying the demand for a closer organization of the welfare activities...
...well--art for art's sake has been transferred into art for the solution of problems, are for propaganda's sake, and the like. America likes to think of itself as a hustling, bustling, nation of practical and efficient men who have not time to waste either in the creation or reading of navels which do not more than tell a pleasant story pleasantly. America, with all it boasted sense of humor take life more strenuously, if one is to believe its novelists, than do its stoild cousins of England. If it he British stolidity that shows itself...
Bill Hart, according to the latest reports has decided to turn his attention form moving pictures to the creation of litters. Two books for boys, "Injun and Whiter" and "Injun and Whiter Strike Out for Themselves, are the extent of his writing to date, but, freed from the necessity of continual careening over the Western plains, be expects an immediate increase in his literary output...
...something peculiarly attracting in the very fact that the picture is entirely created from a blank-white sheet of paper by the skillful handling of the pencil; in the opportunity that a drawing offers to even the most uninitiated observer to study the actual lines and processes of this creation. It is in this, and in the ability shown to present the true character of his sitters through close and studious observation of the physical forms and expressions that reveal the soul, that the popular appeal of Mr. Pollak-Ottendorff's works lies. His portraits, though it seem paradoxical...
...Massachusetts also, the creation of a state police force is being encouraged. The object of the House Bill No. 280 is to perform one of the most basic aims and distinctive functions of the government, namely, the protection of citizens living in the rural districts, where there are at present over 300,000 with totally inadequate police protection. This bill asks that an initial expenditure of $100,000 and an annual sum of $300,000 he provided for the establishment of a police force similar to those in New York and Pennsylvania. When hardly a week passes without the perpetration...