Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Science, through its positive achievements in the phenomenal world, has come to dominate modern education. We are gone mad over the scientific method, and because it has accomplished so much in its legitimate field, we seem to think it the remedy for all our problems. In consequence, we apply it to matters that can never be reduced to formulas and cold logic. Human life is only partially rational. And by considering it wholly so, much of our education has become so much fact and circumstances dumped out of the dusty confines of some pedant's notebook and abandoned...
...only one contest in five starts this season. Dartmouth, defeated 36-22 by the University, trounced the M. I. T. men 38-21 after the Engineers had won their first game with New Bedford Classical by a score of 45-18. Since then M. I. T. has gone down before Tufts and Brown by close margins of 26-22 and 22-20 respectively...
Last year: "Sergei Yessenin has just written me that he has gone into the Caucasus to become a bandit. ... He writes that he is going to be a robber for the thrills. ... He wants to write poetry about robbery, and feels that he must gain experience as a bandit...
...cylinder town. The other story went deeper, or bravely tried to. It was by rhapsodic George Gershwin, to whom jazz comes as readily as a new suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark gal gone wrong. Its dramatic hinges creaked; it was sung and nearly drowned out. For both scores one Ferdie Grofe did the instrumentation and was highly praised. Of rotund Paul Whiteman's third sortie into the precincts of "respectable" music (this concert was in Carnegie Hall), people said: "He's done it again...
...blame this extreme frankness on the ascent of women to equal rights," he went on. "Men have always preserved a certain reticence where women are concerned, but today this is altogether lacking. It is, of course, a certain phase which must be gone through, and after wards the pendulum will undoubtedly swing back in the opposite direction...