Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mistaken!! The idea of this letter is not to get my name in print. The object is to inquire from you if it is possible to secure bound vols. of TIME comprising all of your 1927 issues; also if it will be possible to secure vols. for the years to come. I know of no better way to keep a current history of the times, than by keeping in my library bound vols. of your most wonderful periodical...
...deal with such utility practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution of text books and public utility "catechisms" circulated by thousands in the public schools of several states to foster the idea that government-operation of light, gas and power companies is un-American if not Bolshevistic. This school-book scheme appeared to have been originated by Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. The chief propagandist of the industry has been the National Electric Light Association. Citizens awaited completion of the Trade...
...which often translated itself into swift rages and quick passes with the dagger at his side. It is not recorded that Dr. Harvey's blade penetrated anything more eventful than frogs, birds and an occasional cadaver. But these things it penetrated so shrewdly that the doctor had an idea. It was not, solely, his idea, but rather an astounding improvement on the theories of his teacher, Dr. Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente. This doctor lectured at the school of physic at Padua, Italy, and the inquisitively inclined can still visit the great carved room where Dr. Harvey first heard from...
...attention given the meet in the press and it was almost entirely in a mood of skeptical humor. But, according to the report a great amount of undergraduate enthusiasm attended the unique battle, from Beowulf to Thomas Hardy in extent. And insofar as this interest holds, Mrs. Putnam's idea is psychologically sound. It only awaits the prestige which age will bring...
This sally of the brainy into the territory previously sacred to the brawny is not the last of its kind. It is a growing idea that squares nicely with the current criticisms of cloistered education. And, as it is turning out, it may be more valuable as a quiz on comparative teaching quality than as a student activity...