Word: fetish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Compulsory chapel is a faculty fetish...
...Evolution today is really a religion, and not merely a theory," claimed Dr. Straton. "That is evidenced by the vehemence with which its disciples support their claim. It has become an actual fetish...
Ever since the disastrous period of 1920-21, merchants and manufacturers alike have endeavored to secure the highest possible profits with the smallest possible inventories. Such a policy, to be profitable, requires very rapid "turnover of stock", and just this phrase has become a fetish throughout U. S. business...
...Anthracite," said Mr. Hammond, "has always been a fetish in New England until the last year or two." "Too long," said Governor Fuller, "our section of the country has stuck to anthracite while other sections never use it." "Anthracite" said Mr. Hammond, "is a luxury and not to be indulged in at too great a cost. We have plenty of substitutes" ?meaning bituminous (soft) coal, coke, fuel-oil. That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded...
...another worshipper of this ancient and honorable custom is gained. Intellectual weaklings grow hirsute and become mental Sampsons! If anyone still doubts the effectiveness of this superstition and fetish worship, let him read Professor Tozzer's new book. Let him test it as other religions are often tested: by popularity, and by pragmatism. Professor Tozzer's interesting chapter shows that the whole college world practices it today and that its adherents are satisfied of its effectiveness...