Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woods Hole Ideal Place...
Whatever opinion one may have of John Brown and his potent New England backers, to die for an ideal is tragic and to use a tragic incident for advertising purposes, such as you did on p. 63 of your issue of Nov. 17 should, to my mind, be shocking to those Cultivated Americans to whom your advertisement is addressed...
...entertainment, group meetings, and similar functions which could not and did not exist under the dormitory plan. This was a plan which defied all efforts to secure continuity in any sort of undergraduate organization which had as its basis the residential unit. The Houses, on the other hand, supply ideal conditions for this purpose...
...years able Episcopalians have sought to promote more efficient administration of their Church by subdividing it geographically. Not until 1913 were these provinces actually created. The original ideal was to let the provinces take care of educational, missionary and social work according to policies defined by the Church General Convention every three years, and with money appropriated by the General Convention. But this has not happened. The provinces have no real powers. Their presidents do not rank above other P. E. bishops; they merely preside over annual discussions of neighborhood affairs...
...last week Dutch Chairman Jonkheer Dr. J. Loudon opened the session with these words: "We must ask the public to break its habit of referring to disarmament in connection with our work. What we are dealing with is only the reduction and limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President Hoover was represented last week by Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh Gibson. "We shall contribute," said Mr. Gibson, "a great deal of silence." Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia was represented by Commissar...