Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"In all stages of education students are urged not to lose sight of the real. Whether in a drawing, in mathematics, in history, always the same desire to make knowledge of practical utility. All that is purely bookish is condemned, and all that is based on observation is lauded. Thus...
"This habit of dealing with reality has a happy result for those destined for a business career; it develops men who are shrewd, clear-sighted, of sound judgment, endowed with the very qualities necessary for success in a world in which every mistake has to be paid for. But at...
"I have no desire or intention of criticising the scientific work which has resulted in the discovery of those wonderful unknown substances called vitamines" said Mr. H. G. Lythgoe, director of the Division of Food and Drugs of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, in a recent interview for the...
And now let us turn to the more pleasant task of being constructive. For although college cannot teach a man many facts that he will remember; cannot prepare all men for their particular businesses or destinies in the world at large--be it rugs or wastebaskets, literature or religion; cannot...
With the appearance of straws and the beginning of the hegira to Revere Beach, the end of the "legitimate" season in Boston draws toward its close. "The Tavern", at the Tremont, is probably the last of the reputed first-rate productions that we can look for here before next fall...