Word: incubus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Sam Hobbs of Selma, Ala.: "We may not be statesmen, but we have not a chance to be as good statesmen as we might be because of the incubus of work...
...oilmen who attended the 17th annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in Chicago last week there appeared a notable paradox. For while speakers lambasted Oil's perennial incubus of Taxation with might & main, many an oilman was ready to concede that in one instance, at least, Taxation had done the oil business good. The wonder worker was a particularly painful chain store tax which went into effect in Iowa in June 1935. Upon oil companies owning retail outlets it piled a new levy graduated steeply upward both on gross receipts and number of outlets. By last week...
...antlike Manhattan broker finds his Russian wife's family a strangely charming incubus; upset and then educated by their grasshopper example, he discovers how much he loves his wife...
...before, "if a similar broad examination were to be given in every subject, the entrance system would be adjusted as nearly as possible to the methods of teaching at Harvard." Nevertheless the CRIMSON believes that all advance should not wait upon perfection. The preparatory schools, if freed from the incubus of the examinations, would be able to improve their teaching in accordance with modern developments...
...would advise the approximation of Harvard to the Cambridge model. It can improve on that. It has a tradition of thoroughness which is unknown in England outside the sciences. But why are Americans so anxious to organize things? External organization extends from one's first registration under an incubus of forms, through work, exams, even sport, until the Ph.D. is safely landed. Because spontaneity is rendered difficult I doubt the claim that the system at least assures to the second rate man an adequate education. But if the sincerity and thoroughness of Harvard can be allied with the faith that...