Word: knit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progressives the fatality of serving as grindstone for everybody's axes. Permanent parties must find some dominant issue, such as slavery, or a uniting personality like Roosevelt's, before they show real power. Even if the scattered handful that still clings to the movement is now homogeneous and closely knit, a Progressive landslide seems scarcely imminent...
...committee has unanimously agreed that the merits of the Honor System, as the term is commonly understood, do not warrant its adoption at present by Harvard University. The reasons for this decision on the part of the committee are four-fold; the size of Harvard, the loosely-knit organization of the University, the lack of any strong feeling of dissatisfaction with the present system of proctors, and the changing nature of examinations...
...second point is that of the loosely-knit organization of the University. . . . The presence of a large number of day-scholars who are therefore removed from the solidifying influence of dormitory life, would tend to break down group consciousness, and the absence of a large majority with common standards and backgrounds would tend to defeat the practical working of the plan...
...together for two nights and a day. Woven through this inconsequential thesis is a variety of vigorous by-play and device. Miss Talmadge is excellent as usual and is aided immensely in her pantomime by the brilliant support supplied by Ronald Colman. Director Sidney Franklin has done a neatly knit and thoroughly ingenious...
...uncoordinated. Mr. Davis' selection of Clem Shaver of West Virginia as Chairman of the National Committee did nothing to improve this condition. Mr. Shaver is not only shy and inexperienced, but as yet he has failed to exhibit traces of the dynamic, directing energy which is necessary to knit the local organizations into a great unit for the purposes of a national campaign. Many of the local units are strong, but they remain largely uncoordinated. The difficult task of altering this condition, therefore, rests largely on the candidate himself. He has been overtaken by a host of necessary conferences...