Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the public at large, the name Henry Ford has become synonymous with all that is desirable in an employer. How is it with the Communists of the community? Far otherwise. How they look upon Ford was made evident last week by The Daily Worker, Communist journal published in Chicago. It drew up a bill of grievances against Mr. Ford. Some of the items...
...after another of the Things People Look Down On have, so to speak, been officially blessed by people who ought to know what they are talking about, until all rules of classification have been badly shaken, if not wholly destroyed. Jazz and moving pictures were brought into the fold by Gilbert Seldes, in his book "The Seven Lively Arts," and Mr. Seldes has now stretched an arm into limbo and brought back the comic strip, which has long been devoured avidly by children, and surreptitiously by grown-ups. It seems that comic strips, when done by such competent artists...
...School of International Relations to be established at Geneva this summer does not look on youthful discussion of problems as the best way to an understanding of them, and perhaps for that reason will prove to be more valuable. The purpose of the School is distinctly stated to be an objective study of international affairs, through lectures by experts, and first-hand investigation of the workings of the League of Nations. Naturally such a School will appeal primarily to students who intend to go into some branch of the diplomatic service, but it should also prove interesting to students...
...Look at Drums by Jim Boyd and The Carolinian by R. Sabatini and two little sketchbooks, Isles of Eden and A Winter of Content by Laura Lee Davidson of Baltimore, a lady whom I don't know...
...must be admitted, with no little reason--that many students do not even do as much thinking as is absolutely necessary. The colleges themselves now recognize this condition and in virtually every one of them there is being conducted a campaign to persuade young men and women to look upon study not as a memory exercise but as an opportunity to do some independent thinking. As for giving students time off from their studies, that has been done, too. But it will be noted that the proper safeguards are invariably in evidence. Only those who maintain consistently high standards...