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Word: forgetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not know whether to assign credit to universal agitation or a series of remarkable leaders. So one cannot do better than to forget both and remember that all the issues were social and economic protests indebted to politics neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPULISM | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

...exhaustive research among theatrical relics, constructs a beautifully organized exposition, with convenient summaries for those who grow tired of the pageant and frequent reiteration of his thesis that the quality of the drama was always determined by the theatre itself. This the reader is never allowed to forget...

Author: By R. G. Noyes, | Title: Extremely Palatable Reading | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

...great fault with the Lampoon editorials, we have always thought, is the excellence of the little initial vignettes that introduce them. In stopping to admire their designs we inevitably forget to read the subject matter, and presently pass on to see whether there is more good drawing in the body of the paper. As a rule there is not, though inevitably the illustrations have a certain flair. There are one or two bad spots, this time, especially the various essays at horses, but on the whole the drawings seem fairly creditable. The page by Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST STRAWBERRIES OF SPRING ASSUAGE IBIS | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...University too little realize how very necessary it is that the huge numbers who now want and can get an education must be assimilated into the life of the University Any methods which best assists in such assimilation must not have the abrupt disregard of those who forget how many there are who now desire what the University has and is unable in any huge amounts to give. Either the University becomes a factory or it attempts in some new way to meet a new situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE SOLIDARITY | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...faculties, then," writes Professor Mussey, "will only forget their methods and devices, their endowments and equipment and paraphernalia, their hopes of prosperity and success, of riches and power, their hordes of so-called students indifferent and incompetent--if they will but forget all these and center, their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REASONED REACTIONS | 5/21/1926 | See Source »

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