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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶The President awaited serenely the adjournment of Congress, smug and trim in the cool White House. He told Reporters that he enjoyed the lassitudinous Washington climate during July and August. However, he added, he believed in getting away for a little while, if only for the sake of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jul. 5, 1926 | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Most striking of all was the incorporation in the university scheme of the undergraduate college with courses of a broad informational character filling out the scanty background in the American student's home training. This purely collegiate living, in the midst of university environment has been the cause of much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President MacCracken of Vassar Sees Much Good in Student Move | 6/4/1926 | See Source »

Adjusting the newcomer to the college environment is a task not to be attempted in a spirit of levity. Harvard long ago abandoned the jocose practicality which often serves to initiate the Freshman. In place of practical humor was set up a system of more subtle wit the institution of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GENEROUS OPPORTUNITY | 5/27/1926 | See Source »

Students of civilization whose social studies have begun with biology as a point of departure have lately elaborated with an alluring richness of detail the theory of the burden of civilization. It is suggested that among civilized peoples each succeeding generation elaborates the social environment, increases the number of demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT FRANK OF WISCONSIN--WRITES OF THE REVOLT AGAINST EDUCATION, SAYING LATTER SUFFERS FROM BEING OVERLOADED | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

THE LOVE NEST AND OTHER STORIES - Ring W. Lardner - Scribner ($1.75). The tall morose funnyman from Niles, Mich., gives no indication of having been disconcerted by the jubilee chorus of critics that lately discovered he was a Great Mind. He just goes steadily along, more silent than ever: honing his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Connubia | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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