Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stool in a printer's shop setting type. When he could, he went home and sat alone "in a windowed nook under the stairs," tirelessly schooling himself in literature, languages, composition. He loved his family with a deep reserve; he guarded his thoughts; he pursued youth's ideal of beauty...
...confronted with inconsistency. Sound business propositions were turned down and actually prevented from operating for sentiment's sake. The college refused to give the students ideal eating conditions on a commercial basis. It was preferred to remain on a sentimental basis. Yet for a purely commercial reason Memorial Hall is to be closed...
...World Today, was acquired by Publisher Hearst in 1911. In 1912, it became Hearst's International, still devoted to current events but with an admixture of fiction. The current events element was gradually replaced by ax-grinding articles?now for Matrimony, now for Health, now for the White Collar Ideal, now for Judaism. In this it took over the crusading functions of the Cosmopolitan (founded in 1886 and bought by Mr. Hearst in 1905), which in 1912 became purely a fiction magazine. Evidently the crusading was felt to be not the strongest selling feature of Hearst's International, for, though...
...inexhaustible spring of controversy, and it is unlikely that this busy little state will allow the Balkans, to relapse from the front page. Other states may fall in line with the humdrum task of self-government and industrial development, but Albania will always stand by the ancient and honored ideal of self-determination by the sword. The new-fangled ideas of democracy and representative government may vitiate the national character of neighboring countries, but Albania is resolved to uphold to the last man the Balkan ideal of confusion, poverty, and anarchy...
...condition in Widener, however, is almost ideal in comparison to that of the overcrowded lecture rooms in Harvard and Sever. These halls were not built originally for the multitudes that now pack into them every hour. As winter comes and doors and windows are never absent mindedly left open, the change is entirely for the worse. Before vast sums are spent for new buildings, a little might very well be expended to remedy the defects of the old. New chairs and new desks are needed; above all new ventilating apparatus...