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Word: gradualism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great flaw of free governments has long been declared to dwell in the distortion of public opinion and in the misinformation of consistently biased newspapers. With the gradual development of a kind of rebuttal campaigning like the Smith-Robinson speeches and the proposed Communist vs. Capitalist arguments of Earl Browder and Hamilton Fish, Jr. political bally-hoo is soon likely to be tempered by more intelligent debates. Ready access to the microphone, its far-reaching power and its nation-wide publicity, make calling an opponent's false cards relatively easy and highly effective. Such suggestions as Owen D. Young made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADIO DEMOCRACY | 2/27/1936 | See Source »

...operating at an annual cost of $233 per student. His appointment as Director of Indian Education indicated a new attempt to develop some sort of education to which Indians will respond. When the U. S. Government first turned from shooting Indians to educating them, it hoped to accomplish their gradual assimilation in white communities. In 1879 General Richard Henry Pratt (who once proposed apportioning the Indians, like so many marbles, nine to each county in the U. S.) founded Carlisle School in Pennsylvania. Carlisle, bolstered by a Federal subsidy and the prestige of its football teams, flourished until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beatty to Indians | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...country. This material is well presented and affords an interesting insight into the methods by which officials and students maintain the balance of "normal orthodoxy" on the campus. To this column the revolt on the campus hardly deserves the name, at least at present, unless an enforced but gradual awakening to realistic issues can be called a revolt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

...yield from $200 to $1,200 a year, according to the winner's resources. Since none of the fund is to be dumped into buildings, probably ugly, but all used to hunt and develop brains, it is hoped that collections will be good and the growth of the fund gradual and continuous. There will be no ballyhoo and no drive. Graduates will be notified by letter. Non-graduates, more likely to be "well-heeled," may be interested in the new type of professors unless they have Tory hardening of the heart and believe there is overproduction of professors in evidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD UNIVERSITY FUND | 11/29/1935 | See Source »

...true that errors did creep is but they were merely gradual steps and are easier to recognize as errors when viewed in retrospect than the were at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Coaches, Headguards, Penalties or Injuries in Football Before Eighties | 11/16/1935 | See Source »

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