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Word: looke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factor to consider is that competition really is a detriment to a good shot putter. In some events the athlete can do better work when the competition is keen. In running events it is an asset to be keyed up, but that does not apply to the shot put. Look back over the records and you will find that the best marks have been made when the mental strain was lacking. It does not necessarily follow that a man is a poor competitor when he fails to make his best mark in the Intercollegiate competition. The same strain which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farrell Discourses Upon Shot Putting--Its History and Its Performers | 5/27/1926 | See Source »

...feature play (for public consumption with beauty comic, huh? So a scenario with ankles for the public, Miss Apfel, you will get and perhaps maybe some slap stick to assist the ankles with a hotel for impression, what? No! Don't esk? If gentlemen patrons won't look at faces on Broadway or perhaps cross town why should they in moving picture art, so ankles it is with high skirts of Paris, Miss Apfel. Dictation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/26/1926 | See Source »

...depend are much less so. Political agitation, manoeuvering, and conviction depend largely upon impression. Sometimes in the higher reaches of legislative or executive activity, a particular politician acquires personal prestige enough to translate a careful program into law. But in such things as managing a national convention, one must look out for the careless prejudices of the nation at large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICAL PALAVER | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

...course, no one who has even partly earned the right to participate in a discussion of education will expect too much of such a synthesized section of the curriculum. The historian with, say, the last hundred and the next hundred years of our-educational history before him would doubtless look upon the use of any such section of the curriculum as an emergency measure adopted by a people that found itself the victim of a great confusion resulting from an unprecedentedly rapid accumulation of knowledge. It alone will not educate men or equip them for the mastery of modern life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT FRANK OF WISCONSIN--WRITES OF THE REVOLT AGAINST EDUCATION, SAYING LATTER SUFFERS FROM BEING OVERLOADED | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

...educational dilemma growing out of the enormity and complexity of modern knowledge if we attempt to determine the future evolution of higher education mainly in terms of curriculum construction. Any such approach will inevitably drive us to a choice between superficial general knowledge and accurate specialized knowledge. We must look for the really creative development of education in the methods of teaching rather than in the materials of teaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT FRANK OF WISCONSIN--WRITES OF THE REVOLT AGAINST EDUCATION, SAYING LATTER SUFFERS FROM BEING OVERLOADED | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

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