Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gillette's Ideal Order...
...kind of man who conceives an ideal order of society is, it seems, predestined to have the befoliaged type of face. There was Plato with his curly tonsorial scenery, Karl Marx with his generous whiskers, Lenin with chin shrubbery, Trotzky with a soup moustache. When one comes to King C. Gillette, famed inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, one would think that regardless of any idea in his head, he would be clean-shaven. Not so. His book*-a manufacturer's view of society-possibly explains the razor man's moustache. What he proposes is, in effect...
...country, a mixture of one ounce of the substance in five gallons of gasoline gave off 3.9% of carbon monoxide, as compared with 5.6% with the straight gasoline. Larger doses still further decreased the CO coefficient until between three and four ounces was reached, which Dr. Hutchison considers the ideal mixture. The compound will be inexpensive to manufacture, and will, if the results are sustained, make garages and tunnels as safe as mountain tops. The Society of Automotive Engineers is greatly interested in the discovery...
...Last year in a convention in Canada one of your leading American educators said that it was less dangerous in a nation to have second class brains than to have second class character. I cannot agree with this. For an ideal community consisting of ideal individuals there may be something in it, but we are not living in an ideal world. We are living in a hard, exacting, tremendously complicated world, in which problems, values, and issues are so diversified, interwoven, obscure often, that character alone is not a sure and practical guarantee, unless...
...either civilization to attempt to do anything more than call attention to the existence of a difference in thought and issue an appeal for tolerance and understanding on both sides seems futile. But while the adjectives "stupid" and "unmoral" will doubtless still be hurled by extreme supporters of each ideal, their numbers will not be large enough to make mutual appreciation impossible...