Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dictator Mussolini approved last week the final draft of his famed "Parliamentary Reform Bill...
...factors. Parents want their children to be educated, but they themselves have no true understanding of education. The best they can do is thus to put their children through an educative process--a process in which progress is measured by tangible milestones of years and figures. Passing of the final marks is the attainment of the ultimate goal. At no point must the youthful wayfarer turn aside from the path; his vision is fixed continually on the next grade, the next entrance barrier, the next degree. By the time he reaches college he too has no understanding of education...
...undergraduate critic and from him to those who were responsible for his development. That development has brought about a selfish laxity of resolution quick to find fault and to lay blame elsewhere, and absence of the spirit of cooperation and helpfulness that is indispensable to education. The final responsibility attaches to the American conception of education as a mechanical process that lays stress on the method to the disparagement of the end, and then turns on itself, finding dissatisfaction in the perversion of its purpose...
...Paulo, Brazil, last week, a one-ring circus was held. At the end of circus, as a final and most brilliant attraction, a wrestling match was arranged between a gigantic nameless Bahian Negro and a small, engaging Jap, name unknown. After a few minutes wrestling, the black Bahian had the Jap on his back; but the Jap rolled over, snickering, and at the end of the wrestling he was sitting like a prime minister upon the dark and heaving stomach of his adversary...
...Jones on the final green at Brae Burn was thinking of future tournaments in which he must try to achieve the perfection which he can never much more nearly approximate than he does now, he might have envisaged himself as a chubby and more cheerful old fellow, winning the U. S. Senior Golf Championship. One such, Charles H. Walker. 61, last week won this tournament at Rye, N. Y., with a score of 158 for 36 holes...