Word: morons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much a blessing, are iniquitous things. But they have their compensatory values. For instance, it is terrible to think how American Colleges would be depleted in numbers, were there no notes available. Furthermore, notes probably do help a not inconsiderable number forth into the world at something above the moron stage. It is therefore questionable whether notes ought to be done away with...
...deeming the mark cheaper than waste paper, attempted to import a few billion for conversion into pulp. But the Swiss government objected to the importation of foreign currency in bulk. Switzerland, of course, is a very small country. The world is all agog in expectation of what the mathematical moron will have to say. A dollar's worth of one-mark notes laid end to end ought easily to reach the moon, and a hundred dollars' worth might build a stairway to Paradise...
Leander swam the Hellespont because Hero was waiting on the other bank. Walker swam Lake Erie because moron marathons have fired the public fancy...
...Argonaut : " Just a little too patently ' written down ' to meet moron intellects...
...Significance. The earliest dreams of mankind concern an imagined Earthly Paradise. Here is the Earthly Paradise of one of the most brilliant, varied and active minds of our time. The prescription will not suit all palates, but should, nevertheless, prove stimulating and provocative to anyone not a moron. A gorgeous but rigid dream?the acme of possible scientific and eugenic perfection?a fascinating and plausible illusion. And yet?in spite of all the merits of the book?one wonders at times. Can Heaven-on-Earth, if possible, prove quite so efficiently readymade...