Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked to believe that public opinion rules the Unitd States. It is the ultimate sovereign, the supreme law of the land. This is proposition number three in our fundamentalist decalogue. Government by public opinion is a phrase that slips easily from the tongue and has been so often repeated that most people believe it to be true. Yet public opinion, when you try to define it, proves to be a very elusive thing. What passes on public opinion, in perhaps the majority of cases, is simply the outcome of propegrade and counter-propaganda working the upon the traditions, prejudices, aversions...
Much has been written upon the ways of securing a better enforcement of the laws of the land. But the first essential step in that direction, as I see it, must be a reorientation in the mind of the ordinary citizen...
...Harvard University. Nor is there any reason for a quick choice. Mr. Lowell is still President of Harvard, and until his term is at an end he will so continue. In the meantime the university grows and prospers, not alone financially but intellectually and spiritually, all section men land blurb writers to the contrary not withstanding
...sane conviction that protection is better than liberty, that inequality in equality is too devastating a method of existence. Rather will it be the direct result of a good advertising campaign, backed by Butter and Eggers, outlined by gentlemen from a New York or Gopher Praicie agency, land dependent for its success upon the credulity of some and the sense of humor, of the rest...
...Schools. Dean Everett W. Lord, for instance, of the business college at Boston University, was back at his desk after visiting Porto Rico to establish there the first of a chain of schools in business administration which Boston University proposes to extend to many a foreign land...