Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book you have to read every month, to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month." Thus spake Lorelei, in admiration for what she knew to be a Step Upward, and a long, free, women's stride toward Higher Things. Her simple admiration would be even greater had she known that the movement, toward selectivity in contemporary literature had only just begun. In 1927 there was no Crime Club...
...that a small portion of the time and money thus spent in developing the machine had been spent in improving our knowledge of the medium in which the machine, like man, must function. The importance of a knowledge of the structure of the air is becoming more evident as long distance flights increase in number...
...have done so in all past ages; but we also walk and live in the air, and are now beginning to utilize our power to spring from earth and traverse the air. The importance of knowing more about that medium is apparent. "The air's the thing and before long men who have not had instruction in aerography, will feel that their college training was deficient; and such limitation of their knowledge will prove a handicap. There is rare opportunity for some friend of Harvard to found a Chair of Aerography...
...left such self-revealing notes, to be found by the writers of Harvard's history, that historian's task would be even more thrilling than it is. The biographer of President Eliot--Henry James '99--may welcome the discovery; and future biographers of present and future presidents may look long through "miscellaneous papers in Widener" for pencilled notes of lectures. But few of such notes, if any, will draw as unwittingly clear a self-portrait as those of President Eliot...
...citizenry every shout of the peasant revolt outside the smoke filled hotel room where the nocturnal setters-up of presidents are bartering votes, it is possible that a disgusted populace may at last move to gain the right of choice of president that has been kept from it so long...