Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this proposed reform blesses more than the C man; it is a true antitoxin for overspecialization, it resurrects the ideal of "knowing a little about a lot," and above all stresses good teaching. When Dean Hanford recalls great names like Bliss Perry, Norton, and Palmer, he unintentionally brings to mind the scarcity of such men in present-day Harvard. With teachers who can stimulate from the platform as well as in the study the 'University will more closely approximate a broad, liberal education than by any other means...
...Jews from Germany is not to be sought in the eviction of the Arabs from their homeland. ... No code of morals can justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another." He denies emphatically that Jewish money in Palestine has helped the lot of the Arab masses...
...time and had helped lay out most of the dead ones, too. Never been away from home but wanted like everything to come to New York, particularly to say a word or two over the radio in behalf of fat people. Her fat son had been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when the circus came to town they couldn't see a thing if he got there first. If Mr. Lord liked her letter, could she come in a "bedded car," and should she bring her own vittles...
...sent a representative to Mexico not long ago to check on his authenticity. Kluckhohn was assigned to cover Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. Other sectors of the U. S. press were less temperate. The Hearstian New York Mirror shrilled: "Presidents Roosevelt and Cárdenas ought to realize that a lot of Americans are saying: 'Why not just go down there and take over Mexico? . . . The Mexicans themselves would be better off.' " In Mexico City the conservative Ultimas Noticias declaimed: "Kluckhohn sees everything the color of earthquakes or cyclones or black small pox and consequently could not send news...
...some of the world already knows too well, the symbol of New York City's forthcoming World's Fair is a heroic abstraction from solid geometry: a Trylon & Perisphere (a 700-ft. triangular spire and 200-ft. globe). Between now and March 15th, a lot of U. S. poets will try to translate that symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets...