Word: keying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eastern attitude toward western education, Dr. Eddy said, "The great ambition of every Asiatic student is to complete his education in the West. He may resent the encroachments of western civilization and he may even be outspoken in denouncing the western nations, but he realizes that the key to power in the East lies in a western training. Gandhi and his disciples are of course diametrically opposed to the Easterner's completing his education in Europe or America, but as yet the Gandhi doctrine of eastern self-sufficiency has not had a widespread practical influence...
...country he nosed around the ship's boiler room, noted the indicator that counted the propeller revolutions, bethought him of a machine full of cog wheels which his barkeeps would operate every time they slid a seidel of Extra Pale across the mahogany. His machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days the roll might run to a scroll of 20 ft. John Henry Patterson, then running some coal mine stores, bought two machines to try to keep track of his counter losses. Shortages continued...
James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, was frequently mentioned last week in Washington as a candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania to succeed Gifford Pinchot. The Pennsylvania Senators, (Pepper and Reed) and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are understood to be supporting him. Mrs. Mary Key McBlair, a retired Government clerk, 72 years of age, lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair...
...without going into Gorge Jean Nathanisms to obtain it. Secondly, the direction is ham, and by that we mean that it is distinctly ordinary and obvious. The scenes are not quite real, the French village looks like some left over set and in short the picture is continually off key if compared to King Vidor's splendid instrument...
Moreover, the uni-continental theory has too many historic possibilities to be lightly tossed aside. It is at once the key to the vexatious problem of the migration of the Indians from Asia to America and the mysterious disappearance of the fabled Atlantis, which Plate mentions as being just beyond the Gates of Hercules in his time. Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World...