Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"A friend of mine, who was there lately, tells me that he asked one Swiss after another what was the name of the President, and that they all sought refuge in polite astonishment at such ignorance, and, when pressed for the name, could only screw up their eyes, snap their...
His American Legion connections are nationwide, and the Legion membership is now in its political prime. He has an executive record uncomplicated by such national issues as Relief, Money, Neutrality. Above all he has absolute mastery of Indiana through a machine that is as old-fashioned in its efficiency as...
Last week the Christian Herald decided that, among rural clergymen in the U. S., Middletown's George Gilbert had most to tell about his life. Harper & Brothers, when their Horse and Buggy Doctor was a success last winter, had asked the Christian Herald to discover a parson as kindly...
The wonder of life never paled for Professor Conklin. When he taught undergraduates and flashed images of microscopic plants and animals on a stereopticon screen, Conklin himself looked at them with open-mouthed awe. At the close of their senior year he always advised his students to get married the...
His views on that subject are that the best education occupies a middle ground between old-fashioned education for discipline and the newfangled education for fun. In education he sees a mental and spiritual analogy of embryology: growth as a series of responses to proper stimuli. Habits arise from repeated...