Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main objection to the whole bill is the unwarranted expendi- ture of the money of the taxpayers. It proposes to add more than 25% to the cost of the pension rolls. It is estimated that it would bring the total pension bill of the country to a point higher than ever before reached, not-withstanding it is now nearly 60 years since the close of the Civil War. A generous nation increased its pensions to well over a quarter of a billion annually, and has already bestowed nearly $6,250,000,000 in pensions upon the survivors of that...
...garden spot on the map of intellectual American where young men are keen enough to perceive their danger when the freedom of their professors is threatened. Apparently not all students are willing performers in that universal goose-step which he so deplores. The strike at Millikin, one of the main features of which is the insistence of the undergraduates upon a free hand for the faculty in matters of instruction seems to indicate that the youth of the country is partially aware of the value of an education which is genuinely liberal, and unhampered by interference from outside sources...
That university undergraduates and high school students are extremely critical and even impatient of the ministry has been well illustrated by the replies received to a questionnaire recently broadcasted by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Two of the main questions asked were "What do you think of ministers in general?" and "How can the ministry become more efficient?" Among the most illuminating responses were remarks to the effect that "there are too many men in the ministry who are narrow minded and unprogressive"; that ministers "are not meeting present day problems with present day thinking"; and finally, that "the sentimental rather...
...Rome there are two main classes of problems, problems of practical necessity and problems of moral grandeur. The first consists in lack of houses and means of communications. This will be faced and solved immediately. The problem of greatness consists largely in removing the other problems, that Rome may be worthy of her history and glory, which constantly renews itself. To dp this we must have faith and tenacity, such as the ancient Romans...
June 9-16, General German Musical Society, Frankfurt-am-Main...