Word: erasers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is the further fault that the six important figures are studied not in relation to the history of thought or as the products of their eras, but too much as individual, isolated minds. In attempting to understand the significance of a man's thought one must know something of...
Mr. Davis' speech was dignified, scholarly, slightly trite. His delivery was frequently impeded by a choking cough. He divided Republican rule into three eras ?"Dark Betrayal'' (1920-24), "Smug Self-Complacency" (1924-29), "Wild Dismay" (1929-32).
Premises. The modernizing of higher education in the U. S. has everywhere had the same aims: to free the capable student from the drag of the incapable; to encourage and reward intellectual initiative. And everywhere the liberalizing process has included these steps: removal of compulsion to study; replacement of frequent...
William Harlan Hale, one of the editors, berated the university in an essay of eight pages for building in the style of a bygone day. "No man and no nation who possessed a life-giving creative sense ever dreamed of copying the previous age", he said. "We associate the phenomenon...
Last year big & little U. S. men of business spoke much of a "new era." At many a dinner and convention they buried the old economic doctrine of Depression following Inflation in never-ending cycles. This year big & little U. S. men of business have talked little of new eras...