Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give back more than he receives in an open fight. Opponents of his presidential candidacy only defeat their own ends by giving him a chance to hit back. A successful fight will not be directed against his governorship--he has done his gubernatorial duties too well. It must rather deal in obscure appeals to racial and religious prejudice; if it hopes to attract either vigorous denial or assent...
...hurly-burly over the post war rush of American youth to the educational institutions of the country, a great deal has been said about limiting enrollment, selective admission regulations, and other machinery which would enable the universities and colleges to protect themselves from the thundering herd. Dean Gauss points out that much of this responsibility of selection might well be delegated to the parents of the potential applicant. He then goes on to show by means of very pertinent and quite informal examples of individual cases, the misfortune of social maladjustment in college resulting from the attitude of parents...
...great deal of clear and not a little convulsive thought has gone into the initial number of this quarterly, the presence of which is being bruited about in the better bookshops from Brattle Street to Willoughby Street in London. One cannot dismiss it as another transitory emulation of the Parisian expatriates, although that group is the indubitable fount of its inspiration. Certainly it is not a periodical for the layman; rather is it one of the arts and for artists, or those who aspire to become artists. But it is too well made up to qualify as merely a fleeting...
...exactly the magazine one will like if one likes that sort of thing. Other new publications have had less merit; certainly few have possessed the technical excellence of this one. The substantial list of god fathers, including President Neilson of Smith and Professor Murdock of Harvard does a great deal toward removing the qualms which its rather vague parentage gives forth. Those who can neither read Plato is the original nor Harrah's is signs may appreciate the tremendous significance exhibited by snapshots of Cambridge candy kitchens; those who are able to do neither one may find pleasure in admiring...
...candidate has yet appeared to champion all four-except Mayor Thompson. From this circumstance some saw in his crusade a flourish preliminary to tossing the Thomp- son hat into the presidential ring. Despite President Coolidge's adamant refusal to call a special session of Congress to deal with the flood emergency and his veto of the McNary-Haugen Bill (farm relief). Mayor Thompson hailed him as one of the greatest friends of the Mississippi Valley in the White House. Of onetime Governor Lowden he said: "There's a man who says he wants to be President. He does...