Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such application of outside pressure as this destroys the whole ideal of modern education. Presumably a man goes to college not to learn a certain number of facts but to acquire intellectual independence, the power of thinking for himself. If faculties carefully sandbag expressions of opinion which run counter to capitalist interest, they betray that freedom of thought which it is their function to inspire...
Recently he traveled to Italy, conferred with Mussolini, and returned to Belgium "fired with the ideal of action." Last week he acted up, scandalized most of his steady-going countrymen. His followers staged an anti-cabinet demonstration in Brussels, just as Crown Prince Leopold and Premier Viscount Poullet were about to receive the War standards of several disbanded Belgian regiments at the National Army Museum. Scattered throughout the crowd of 40,000 persons who witnessed this ceremony, the fledgling Fascists created a terrific uproar: "Keep the Army at full strength! Down with Poullet! Hang him! Vive la Belgique immortelle! Hurrah...
...this dream not comparable to the Vatican's ideal of the Kingdom of Christ? Down came the Cardinal's eyebrows into a deep frown, and ire flashed from the darkness. "How dare you make that comparison?" he thundered: "The idea of Christ as King is as old as the Christian world. Empires have passed and others will pass and be forgotten, but the Kingdom of Christ will live...
...authors have made research on Character* They are headmasters of New England private schools. Their quarry is elusive, ideal, multiform. Like sensible men, each author has conducted that part of the work for which he is specially qualified. By this means a scheme of education for the modern boy is outlined thoroughly, authoritatively, in six chapters. The book recommends itself highly to parents and pedagogs...
...same condition in which it was put in the tomb. If it bad been left undiscovered until some discoverer 2000 years hence chanced upon it, decay would probably have destroyed much of it. Six-milenniums have passed since the funerary equipment was sealed up at Gizeh and even the ideal conditions of a uniform temperature and dry air were insufficient to preserve the furniture...