Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...internally administered by means of education. The proposal in its concrete form, is a bill introduced in to the Nebraska State Legislature, by State Senator Allen S. Stinson, a former school teacher, providing for courses in "common honesty, morality, courtesy, obedience to law, respect to the flag, respect for parents and the home, and the dignity and necessity of honest labor," to be given in all the grade and high schools of the state. The standards which these courses are to meet and the way in which they are to perform their somewhat difficult mission will all be cared...
...trying to visualize the future morality course in actual operation. Such vexing matters as the text book of morality which should be chosen or its proper interpretation, just how honesty is to be made the guiding principle of a prominent swindler's son, or how respect for the flag is to be inspired without arousing dangerous international antipathies indicate a more difficult problem than the Senator seems to contemplate. Finally we are led to wonder how the youthful Nebraskans are to be instructed in the proper sense of the dignity of honest labor. Will they be shown what ravages idleness...
...Famed during the World War as one of the "mystery ships" of the Dover patrol; now flying the flag of Panama...
After the league schedules have been completed, the team winning the greatest percentage of its contests is awarded a pennant, emblematic of a league championship. Then, early in October, the two league champions meet to compete for higher honors, additional cash. Attended by flag-waving rooters with brass bands, unlimited free publicity from the press, the National League winners engage their American League prototypes in deadly combat?best four out of seven games, known as the World Series...
...Significance. Hardy first planted the literary flag in the rural turf of England. Since then Sheila Kaye-Smith, T. F. Powys and many another have followed him. Doomsday, in Sussex, most resembles Miss Kaye-Smith's work...