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Word: idealism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing national consciousness of the South, its ideal of a sovereign China free from foreign influence is attributed the impetus that drives its forces steadily toward Pekin. And in the dispute with dominant Japan, the United States is suggested, as a probable mediator. Because of important American business interests a natural bias will suggest a decision favorable to imperialistic enterprise and prejudicial to the anti-foreign Chinese Nation. Such interference with an independent movement is presently pragmatical, but it forestalls the day when all peoples must be autonomous, and it suggests too much another Nicaragua...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BREAKING WAVE | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

President Lowell has spoken of self-education as the ideal toward which teaching itself should strive, but the Reading Period is in itself such a determined step in that direction that it is questionable whether the student should be completely deprived of tutorial guidance. The possibilities for research and creative work in the time thus made available to the tutor are without doubt great, and honor would be presumed, on the basis of past accomplishment, to be won during them for the University. But if the tutorial system is to continue serving alike the dropped Freshman and the first group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SECOND READING PERIOD | 5/8/1928 | See Source »

Home maker, or "Ideal" type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Having presented this curious tabulation, Mrs. Goodwin said that most women would turn into ideal wives if they were equipped with "good plumbing, well-built kitchens and labor-saving devices of all sorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...contrasting the three universities instinct impels one to speak of Harvard first. Harvard men may be said to represent an ideal which the rest of the country looks forward to achieving after several centuries of intensive culture. The Harvard man is a sort of vidette of American civilization. Far in advance of the main body, he has time to contemplate the masses with sympathy and compassion. While he is tolerant of others, he scarcely expects others to understand him. He enjoys an independence of action bred of conscious superiority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Triple Contrast | 4/28/1928 | See Source »

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