Word: latest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggests either a lack of powers of observation, or a Pollynna-like optimism. The most superficial analysis should convince Mr. Bellamy that the real reason for the present passionate interest in affairs of government and polities is that just now they are even more spicy and sensational than the latest returns on who killed whom in Westchester Country. As soon as conditions again approach the normal the favorites of former months will be back doing business at the old stand with an even more appreciative clientele...
...Hugo Stinnes' funeral, Maximilian Harden, German Socialist writer, had published his latest volume of Kopfe (heads), a series of character sketches of great German men of the present time. Herr Harden in discussing the "King of Coke" admires his financial genius but despises his political ability...
...outcry of the latest group, which urges a course in Library Training in public schools, seems not more necessary than the thousand and one similar demands which appear and disappear from time to time. In quoting from the letters of college freshmen to prove that first year university work would have been much easier with a knowledge of how to use books and libraries, these petitioners are almost ridiculous. The collegiate mind must be singularly inept which fails to solve the intricacies of the average card index system after a few moments of thought. And the fact that several cities...
...elementary school is primarily to give the student the foundation on which the details of a more liberal education may subsequently be constructed. It cannot undertake also to give instruction in special subjects, such, among others, as library training. If, however, the purpose of this latest idea is to cultivate an instinctive love of books and reading, it might be accomplished much more effectively by personal suggestion, and a closer cooperation between library and school boards, than by routine mass instruction. To paraphrase a trite proverb, anyone can lead the student to a book, but only his own inclinations...
...latest work, The Chrysalis, depicting a young man emerging from the form of a gorilla, was refused admission to the current exhibition of the National Academy on the ground of lack of artistic merit (TIME...