Word: faked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are more than 3,000,000 men and women in the United States pursuing some kind of education after working hours. Heretofore, largely because of the lack of centralized organization, such as exists in England, there have developed all sorts of fake correspondence schools and extension courses which have been fit subject for Mencken and the Babbitt-baters. The new association, under the Presidency of a man like Dean Russell of Teachers College, Columbia, should be able to weed out the shysters and lend a guiding hand to this much abused but potentially excellent development in education...
Henry Ford: "On my birthday (TIME, Aug. 9) I presented to 'Baron Friedrich von Krupp' a new specially constructed Ford with wire wheels, in order to facilitate his tour of the country. Later the 'Baron' was, as every-one knows, discovered to be a fake (TIME, Sept. 6). He is now in Newcastle County (Del.) workhouse awaiting trial on the charge of passing worthless checks. I have written through a secretary to authorities in Wilmington, Del., inquiring as to just what I can do to get my Ford back. It is now in Denver driven from...
...three senior British universities owe to historical accident. Principal Irvine seems to imply that the college system can be created quite easily, that it has been so created revived in the new Universities of England and revived in the old universities of Scotland all of which I believe fake...
...cinematography is good. There are real alligators and fake Spanish moss. The plot calls up tears of Little Annie Rooney...
...sura (verse); the collection became the Koran, a marvelous conglomeration of divine edicts, personal justifications of and promises to Mohammed, paraphrases of Jewish folklore and inscrutable foreign catchwords thrown in like sacred seasoning. Occasionally there came a flash of lofty poetry. Whether or not he was a fake medium, a paranoiac, epileptic, self-deluded, oversexed demagog, Mohammed was undoubtedly a grand and grotesque figure with a good memory and a shrewd pagan appraisal of Moses and Jesus as capable men who had founded religions by giving their subconscious selves free rein...