Word: infected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recital of the most thrilling experiences of his life in this week's "Collier". There is a story of a balky uncle with a load of dynamite on his back and explosive bullets zipping all around; another of a colony of lepers threatening to break past his guard and infect a whole city with their dread disease. Amazing recitations they are, truly, but the French peasant ploughing up an unexploded shell probably gets the same thrill in his own back yard...
...hard fight before persuading the trustees to reject a gift offered on condition that certain radical changes be made in the educational methods. Museums of art are often faced with the same difficulty when individuals donate their valuable though heterogeneous collections with the proviso that the whole be kept infect in one room forever. Under such circumstances proper display is usually impossible...
...Hack discussed the problem of education, maintaining that a moral change of attitude on the part both of the students and of the Faculty must be the aim of those who seek an improvement in American education. Granting this hypothesis, the problem is, according to Professor Hack, to infect the community, both of students and of instructors, with the realization of the woeful state of education in this country and thus lead to a change of attitude...