Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England did not take Milton for its ideal because the poet belonged to a party. He was one of them, involved in their quarrels, and therefore refused by his opponents...
...Coleman of the Hammond, Ind., High School investigated the cases of 125 "problem" pupils (those who had been disciplined four or more times during each of two consecutive semesters) and 125 '"ideal" pupils (those who had never been disciplined). Investigator Coleman did not designate his own school as the proving ground, stating only that the survey was carried on in an industrial community. ''The points of comparison [between the two groups] included the relative desirability of the residential location, musical instruments in the home, the number and nature of the newspapers and magazines taken regularly, whether there...
Findings: 13.6% of the problem group came from "elite" neighborhoods, 33.6% from "desirable" localities, 50.4% from "inferior" homes. But only 7.2% of the ideal group were listed under "elite" and 23.2% under "desirable," while 68% of the category came from the "inferior" area. The families of 20 more problem than ideal students had pianos, 22 more had radios, 13 more owned phonographs, 13 more had telephones. Encyclopedias were available to 62 bad children, to 47 good children. That families of only six more-problem than ideal children possessed motors was explained by the fact that most men in the community...
...great vaulted hall, largest in the world, with an esplanade on the Battery water's edge and buttressed by two ten story office buildings. A nation-wide contest among architects of all races will be held, a popular subscription to raise $25,000,000 set into motion. Ideal way of raising the money, declared Chairman Donnelly last week, would be to collect 25? from every U. S. citizen. "Then each person would feel he owned as much in this national monument as the next one. But all this about plans and designs is just my idea of what...
...that increases in good years, dwindles in less good years. Mr. Grace also put in a few words on the merger's economic justification, claimed Bethlehem's distribution facilities would take care of Youngstown's overproduction of pipe, that the two companies combined would have an "ideal" 65-35 ratio of light and heavy products, the ratio which U. S. Steel would well like...