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Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest, though they may shout to the skies that they have complete coordination among their sections, can give no air-tight proof of fact. They can only refer vaguely to the "common sense" of their instructors. True, the common sense of a great many staffs is extremely good, but other courses have failed utterly to bring any order or continuity out of the various theories and marking systems of their section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FITTING THE MOULD | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...little man with the red hair strode up to him and said, "This, my good man, is a rehearsal of the Harvard Dramatic Club! If you want to see our production, come next Wednesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...Would appeasement put us right back where we were in 1932?" asked Sweezy. "It's not a question of the government appeasing business, but rather of business appeasing government and the people and convincing them that business is a good thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business Appeasement Policy Receives Sharp Criticism at Dunster Gathering | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...course itself, there would be little need for tutoring schools in most cases. In many courses, the material is given up to the eve of the examination period itself. Not many men would pay fifteen or twenty dollars for a poor review if the college gave them a good one free. Sincerely yours, Peter Black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters on Tutoring | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...understand him. Reading the files of a rival publication, he exclaimed, "Not a Lincoln article! It is not a great magazine!" Thereupon he set Ida Tarbell to writing her enormously successful Life of Lincoln. Editor Lincoln Steffens was bewildered by the passion with which McClure ran staff meetings, spouted good and bad ideas-one of them, that Steffens could not edit a magazine in an office. To get away, Steffens traveled through the Middle West, wrote his sensational The Shame of the Cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journalist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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