Word: kind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...referred to the U.S. as a "colossus," acknowledged Costa Rica's debt to the late Chief Justice White of the U.S.* and, without flourishes, said: "There is nothing more natural than the purpose of my Government to maintain and improve the good relations." The Hoover reply was in kind. Besides orating about "cooperation" and "contacts," Mr. Hoover tried to define what he means by "goodwill" (see above) and mentioned two specific things for which Costa Rica may be admired-wide distribution of land and home ownership, and four times as many schoolteachers as soldiers...
...examinations for degree of identification of slides, even of monuments, is insurance against a too academic consideration of a mass of material. Anyone who has sat in a darkened room and tried his wits at snap judgments on a series of pictures appreciates the intensive training necessary for any kind of success. The gain to concentrators in the Fine Arts should be that which comes from expansion without diffusion...
...account of the frequency with which South American affairs are ignored or involuntarily misrepresented in the North American press, I lave been very pleased to read a kind of " A B C " section devoted to Argentine; Brazil, and Chile, in your Nov. 19 issue...
President-Elect Hoover knows all about Collaborators Foster & Catchings. They are the kind of citizens with whom he likes to think and work. Their "road to plenty" has much the same idealistic ring as his own "abolishing poverty." Their job reserve plan served as an exegesis of his own campaign promise of a large continuous public works program. So he authorized Governor Brewster of Maine to explain the job reserve at the Governor's conference in New Orleans last week (see col. 1) and to announce it as an outline of the Hoover plan for protecting Coolidge prosperity...
Colombia is prospering vastly, not only on account of major U. S. oil and fruit developments (see Map), but because the taste of Americans is rapidly turning from strong coffee to mild-the kind grown in Colombia, whereas stronger brands come from Brazil. The popularity of platinum and the present Parisian rage for emeralds are also potent prosperity factors, for Colombia is the largest producer of the white metal and the green stone. France is less than half as great as Colombia, in area; New York City is only slightly less in population...