Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moved in the very depths of its emotional being, last week, when President Calles said: "For the first time in Mexican history the Republic faces a situation whose dominant note is the lack of a leader of military power. . . . This is the most solemn hour of our national life. ... I consider it necessary that we pass from a system of government by one man to a government of institutions. ... It is useless to seek an outstanding or dictatorial person. May I say there are none...
More recently many schools and colleges in the U. S. adopted the honor system. During examination hours, therefore, schoolmasters could do anything they liked. They could titter over Petronius, they could play golf. Life became easy for the masters (from magister [Latin]: master, director, superintendent) during examination hours...
...United Cigar Stores Corp. (3,000 branches). The two firms are now joined in interests in Union United Tobacco Co. (a holding company) and Schulte-United Five-Cents-to-a-Dollar Stores. United has large stockholdings in the Pennsylvania Drug Co., Schulte in the American Druggists Syndicate; United in Life Savers Inc., Beechnut Packing Co., Gillette Safety Razor Co., U. S. Tobacco Co., Philip Morris & Co. Ltd., Schulte in B. G. Davis & Co. (cigars), Nadler Cigar Co., Huyler's of Delaware Inc. (candy, sodas, lunches), V. Vivadou Inc. (cosmetics), Park & Tilford (candies), the Schulte Real Estate Co. Action...
...play, poetry-is "repose in stimulation," and adds deeper meanings to the usual activities of life. The fullness of life depends upon the richness of its meanings, meanings can only be expressed in symbols, and symbols are province...
Education is a matter of growth through practice of useful occupations rather than the acquisition of irrelevant book-learning. (Dewey's "project method" has been grossly misinterpreted in modern schools which "let the children do what they want.") Education must continue throughout life...