Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years children will be taught through motion pictures and not through books. Thomas A. Edison says so, and he is the accepted mentor of current civilization...
With characteristically poor logic, Mr. Edison bases his contentions upon the hypothesis that " Knowledge is received 85% through the eye," thereby implying that books are absorbed through a sense either of hearing, feeling, tasting or smelling...
Autocracy, successful in business, is not always effective in government. That is why even Mr. Edison, life-long friend, will not vote for Ford for President...
...Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard: " I received the Civic Forum's medal of honor for distinguished public service. My predecessors in this honor are George W. Goethals, Thomas A. Edison, Alexander G. Bell and Herbert C. Hoover...
President Eliot will receive the great Gold Medal from the Civic Forum Monday night at the Town Hall of New York City. President Eliot will be the fifth American to receive the medal, the others being Alexander G. Bell, Thomas A. Edison, George W. Goethals, and Herbert Hoover...