Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe Commissioner McNutt had attempted to demote President Quezon down the Manila coast list (TIME, May 31). Meanwhile in the U. S., Commissioner McNutt's good friend and political ally, Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton, was busy announcing that High Commissioner McNutt would make in 1940 an ideal candidate for President...
...Sylvia is the Girl Scouts' "ideal" name. Unfortunately at Briarcliff the nearest thing to a bona fide Sylvia was one Solveig (Pahle) from Oslo, 18 years old, a four-language polyglot...
President Roosevelt's famed radio voice was never better than when he intoned: "1 pray God no hazard of the future may ever dissipate or destroy that common ideal [of democracy]." Because more of them understood French, the crowd had more cheers for President Lebrun: ". . . despite the distance separating the United States and France, these two democracies . . . must remain united...
...known as editor of the Virginia Quarterly, St. John's should prove a stimulating challenge. By last week President-elect Barr had rounded up four bright young faculty-men from Chicago and one from Oxford, where he once studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Barr-Hutchins liberal arts ideal Educator Hutchins described before sailing for a European vacation last week: "St. John's is an excellent place to try out the idea of educating people to live instead of to earn a living. There will be emphasis on the classics - not on the languages, but on great books...
...first jute yarns were turned out by flax weavers in Dundee, Scotland. Twenty years later most Dundee weavers had given up flax for jute and an Englishman had shipped the first jute spinning machinery to Calcutta. British merchants were not slow to recognize the possibilities in Bengal's ideal climate and magnificent supply of cheap labor (Bengal, with about 50,000,000 inhabitants, is the most densely populated province in India). Working farms of two or three acres apiece, Bengal natives took more land out of rice, on which they live, and planted it with jute. Like cotton, this...