Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people who like to argue subtle questions, an event last week at Lima, Ohio, furnished ideal debate. The ques-tions suggested were: Can a madman be heroic? Can a hero be mad? The event was this: George Remus, one-time Illinois lawyer, then millionaire Ohio bootlegger, then convict, then insensate wife-murderer, who was judged guiltless but mentally insecure in Cincinnati (TIME, Jan. 2), and who was confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately...
With the plans for the new building, no fault is to be found. Its location, with Harvard's definite movement towards the Charles, is ideal. Theodore Roosevelt's home during his formative years and the domicile of the Speakers Club, it is true will have to go, but such up-rootings must be expected, and, artistically speaking, the loss of these and other frame houses in the neighborhood of the Freshman dormitories is scarcely to be regretted. In design, the new gymnasium proves once more the adaptibility of Colonial architecture. Though highly utilitarian in purpose, the outside of the building...
...professors and the constantly growing stream of student migration from one country to another. . . . It is not desirable that we should attempt to be all alike. . . . We should all be intent on maintaining our own institutions and customs, preserving the purity of our own language and literature, fostering the ideals of our own culture and society. In a territory reaching from the north temperate zone?? through the tropics to the South Pole, there is room enough for every worthy activity which is profitable and every ideal which is good...
Loomed one real issue, it arose from a hard fact: The Americas are split in regard to great triune ideal of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The U. S. stresses Fraternity because there are invested in Latin America some five billions of U. S. dollars. Fraternity is the best policy when seasoned with a little intervention...
...Davis made a trip to the Orient & South Sea Islands. Among the Sunda Islands he recognized ideal climate for rubber tree cultivation. In Sumatra he developed rubber plantations. Others, notably Firestone Tire & Rubber, have followed since...