Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain that on the subject of colleges he feels deeply and speaks strongly. Let the reader judge for himself of the strength and sting of this paragraph from his essay on "Emerson's Most Famous Speech"--and let him ponder it as well; for herein lies the key to the whole volume: "If he (Emerson) were of our generation . . . would he not say: 'O you who are cramped in costly buildings, clogged with routine, preoccupied with, administrative machinery, how can you see the sun whether it be shining? Where is your free hour for Night and her stars...
...AUTO KEY TO RICH CHEMIST'S SHOOTING...
...most prominent men in the engineering profession are members of Tau Beta Pi, including Dr. S. W. Stratton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and President M. L. Burton of the University of Michigan and many of the foremost practicing engineers in America. The society has an interesting key representing in its form the "bent" of a trestle, the most important section of that structure as far as the carrying of the load for which it was designed is concerned...
When Sir Thomas Lipton offered a trophy to be competed for by the fishing fleets of New England and Canada, enthusiastic shouts arose from the throats of American yachtsmen from Eastport to Key West. It was most earnestly hoped that the fisherman's races would not degenerate into a series of the comic opera flascos that marked the course of the contests for the America's Cup some seasons age. Then, it will be remembered, conditions had to be exactly right; the sea could not be too choppy, yet there had to be enough wind to make it a race...
...Apparently the movement has thus far no coherence beyond a kind of common program which is made up more of ardent desires than of definite aims. To restore the joy of labor by repudiating "personal gain as an economic motive" thus eliminating a "mechanical, inhuman work-relationship" is the key-note of the campaign; and together with this, to develop rather than to level the individual. Whether the movement will reach a successful conclusion depends upon whether the movers are strong and the aim attainable...