Word: latested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chief criticism of the attitude of operators in American industry is that concurrent with the willingness to discard all but the latest machinery there is an equal readiness to cast off human machinery when its efficiency becomes impaired. In developing his discussion of this aspect of American industry he made a few observations on the subject of unemployment. He explained that, up to the present time, the expansion of industry and the mobility of labor, which follows demand, have served to prevent unemployment from growing into a national problem such as it is in England. Though reliable governmental statistics relative...
Those who have attempted to follow Boston censorship through the intricate maze of reasoning which decides the fate of cultural efforts in the City across the Charles find it a difficult task to justify the logic of its latest pronunclamentos. The injustice of the "Strange Interlude" debacle and the growing list of banned books, as burlesque shows and arty magazines proceed unmolested, is almost as inexplicable as the astounding quiescence which greets the presence of Bertrand Russell in Boston...
...about some young people who worked in a department store?two sisters and the youth they were competing for. It has been made into a satisfactory program picture that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed of such familiar elements as one sister's sacrifices for another who repays her by stealing her clothes and her fiance's affections...
...QUEST FOR CERTAINTY?John Dewey?Minton, Balch ($4.00). John Dewey, philosopher's philosopher, educator's educator, has played a role in U. S. life not small but not popular.* In his latest book Dr. Dewey returns to one of his favorite attacks on a stubborn position: the problem of getting philosophical knowledge into action. Academic as Dr. Dewey may appear to the layman, he has ever had little use for a fugitive and cloistered learning that never sallies out and seeks its adversary: Life. Experimental knowledge, says he, is the most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which...
...revolt. I come roaring forth with a book which is the opposite of little Rollo and little Lucy." Perhaps Poet Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected patron. As usual, Poet Lindsay wanU these poems to be chanted, hopes...