Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ideal in Bakersfield...
...British company described its progress to him as "entirely satisfactory." Again probing deeper, Miss Thompson claims to have ascertained that very many small, private concessionaires "are making enormous profits, profits which they could not possibly expect to draw in any European country or America." She adds: "An ideal concession is that of a Danish button company which makes buttons from pressed blood obtained from Russian slaughter houses, and has acquired a fortune in a very short time...
...central fact militating against Candidate Hoover is that many people cannot understand what he stands for. He is no forthright protagonist of an ideal or program. He puts forth no clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell...
Such a program comes not far from the ideal of President Eliot. As a type of education for secondary schools, it appears excellent; whether or not it is successful there may soon be known through the experiment at Avon, Connecticut, where such a school is now in existence. But as a college measure it possesses serious defects, beyond the almost insurmountable task of supplanting by it the present system...
...January 8, 1918, the late President Wilson gave his Fourteen Points to the World. One of them stipulated that all people speaking the same language should be concentrated under the role of one state. Theoretically the ideal expressed is beautiful, but immediately the Italians appropriated German-speaking Tyrol; France took German-speaking Alsace; and the German-speaking Czechs were ignored. As always the rights of the minority were neglected and the few were not consulted...