Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Jardine of Agriculture took note of the Smith speech on farm relief at Omaha and said: "Either Governor Smith is grossly ignorant in the field of practical economics or is deliberately misrepresenting the truth. . . . Let no one be deceived...
...manage the hockey team?" The usual answer is no less illuminating than the question itself. The young man, flattered by the tribute to his executive ability, elaborates on the difficulties of his managerial position and then turns to club activities, theatres, and "brawls". Any reference to the academic will either produce embarrassment or be dismissed with a scornful, "Oh, you don't have to do any work to get through that place." It is not ability, but appreciation and understanding of educational values, that is lacking here. The American student does not want to become educated except as that result...
Open undergraduate criticism of collage professors and administrators, not many years ago regarded either as a mark of reprehensible precocity or as an encouraging sign of Intellectual alertness, has now become so common as to attract little more than passing notice. The scales are even beginning to tip in the opposite direction and the college public to become cloyed with an increasing flood of student opinions on courses, regulations, professional personalities and academic experiments...
...such a time as this a change in national policies involves not−as some may lightly think−only a choice between different roads by either of which we may go forward, but a question also as to whether we may not be taking the wrong road and moving backward. The measure of our national prosperity, of our stability, of our hope of further progress at this time is the measure of what we may risk through a change in present policies. More than once in our national history a change in policies in a time of advancement...
...Messrs. Ziegfeld and Wagner had not arisen for the day. Neither had the Replogles. When the Customs inspector came through, Mr. Ziegfeld said yes, he had no alcoholics. The Replogles said no, they had none either. Dr. Wagner, however, spoke up and admitted he had some whiskey left in a bottle. The "Roamer's" porter confessed he had a bottle of beer...