Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This reform will be eagerly looked for by restaurant habitues, but there is still one evil which cries for reformation. Some compulsive power must insist that steaks be large enough to be visible to the naked...
Indiscriminate encouragement of the artistic impulse in children is an evil almost as lamentable as indiscriminate repression. In Vienna, Dr. Frank Cizek (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923) has a school for juvenile artists, whose work has been exhibited in the U. S. In Manhattan, Dr. H. E. Fritz, Art Director of Stuyvesant High School, conduct. a similar class. Like Dr. Cizek, Dr. Fritz has set himself to sift the authentic from the mediocre. Several hundred children, from 6 to 16, are recommended, each month, by their teachers. They are admitted to his class on trial; none but those whose abilities...
...hybrid nature, something between Prophezzors and Satellites, called Shock-Producers, whose function it is to awaken the sleepers. For some reason unintelligible to me the Shock-Producers occupy a relatively unimportant position at present; but their significance seems destined to increase, because they strike at the root of the evil at Dravrah. Their task is tremendous and requires the greatest skill and ingenuity. They must shock the Satellites in such a way as to awaken them without killing them, and in some cases it seems impossible to do one without the other...
...chatterbox rural parish discovers the affair and turns against him as a defender of evil. He loses his church and is about to hang himself when a small child and an ancient farmer remind him that love and courage are enduring loyalties in life...
...apparently quite unrelated though interesting affairs have been brought under one news item: the opium evil and the recent tendency of Americans to offer large prizes. Former Controller Metz has gone on record as willing to give $100,000 to the man who invents synthetic opium. Strangely enough Mr. Metz thinks he can succeed where the ill-fated Opium Conference failed. Put cheap opium production into the hands of western scientists, argues the prize offer, and you eliminate the opium complex of the East...