Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of Persian Letters, the CRIMSON has emphasized the same fundamental defect in the schedule of things which pass current for education. Mirza wrote to his friend Usbek: "My observation convinces me that, in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: 'Do something. Get busy. Fill the hour. Make every minute count--never mind what it counts for--and in four years the magic of hustle-bustle will transform us into educated...
...First of all, there is the League itself. The Assembly, in which our French friend makes the tour of the world within twice sixty minutes (in comparison with the famous sixty days of Jules Verne), is exceptionally interesting, but after all it is only a small part of the League. Heavier work is done in the Council meetings, and the heaviest work of all in the sessions of the special committees. In addition the student of the League will find much to keep him occupied in investigating the activities of the Secretariat, in nosing about its immense library on international...
...maintained her unostentatious way of life and, last week, following a farewell call from her step-son-in-law, departed quietly for Manhattan. It was midnight when Bernard M. Baruch, ex-Chairman of the War Industries Board and friend of the late President, accompanied his daughter. Miss Belle Baruch, and her friend, Miss Eleanor Collins, dressed in deep mourning and carrying a bunch of white gardenias, to their cabins on the Majestic at a pier in Manhattan...
...reductio ad absurdum that the chemist and coal man, George W. Rappelyea, of Dayton, Tenn., had in mind when he caused the arrest of his friend John T. Scopes, 24-year-old instructor in the Rhea High School (TIME, May 18, 25). It started in a drug-store conversation; Scopes told Rappelyea that he was still using a Biology text book containing an explanation of the theory of evolution which had once been approved by state authorities and not yet recalled, though Tennessee's anti-evolution act had been the law for a month. Rappelyea swore out a warrant...
...friend, Tom, and I had been filled with the abounding zest and ambition of youth. We were determined to make something of ourselves, to go out into the world and do big things in a big way. One day Tom showed me the modest prospectus of the I. C. S., flanked on one side by a Holeproof Hosiery miss and on the other by an earnest exhortation to "Ask Dad, He Knows...