Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laird of Colgate has made a sleep-habit survey of 509 distinguished U. S. men, learned some of their ways of putting themselves to sleep: sticking feet out from under covers, straining eyes, random thinking, repeating Christian names, plans for an ideal home, extracting square roots, eating onions, praying. Of those questioned, only 2% used alcohol to induce sleep; half of them were distinguished college professors...
...Daniel Guggenheim last year (TIME, Nov. 11), amounted to $300,000. This bulky leftover was to go to some enterprising southern educational institution. Last week Trustees of the Fund announced Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta to be the final beneficiary. Reasons: Georgia Tech is enterprising. It has an ideal aviation location and environment, high engineering requirements. Its student body is cosmopolitan...
Only 31 of the senior class, which designated "necking" as its favorite indoor sport and Smith College the ideal rendezivous, admitted never having been kissed. Dartmouth's ideal girl friend has brown eyes and black hair, and is moderately "fast." Marsters was credited with having done most for the college, while the editor of the "Dartmouth" was chief object of respect...
...Kansas have had experience in the attempts of the state to enforce restrictive legislation with sloppy neighboring states sending their rot-gut over to us. Present conditions are not ideal but they are a great improvement over conditions when we had state prohibition bordered by state license. R. H. Ritchie...
...train of Jiddu Krishnamurti's thought and elicit from him much specific comment on the troubled land of his birth. In his suite at the Ritz-Carlton the well-known spiritual teacher and Y. Prasad, his Indian aide, tallsed freely and in perfect English of the characteristics of the ideal man of the future, but felt that there was not sufficient evidence at hand on which to base a comment on the Russian religious situation, and expressed more concern for the spiritual than for the political well-being of India...