Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Plato's day, the complaint has frequently been pronounced that we train physicians, musicians, educators and circus clowns, but we do not train men to be statesmen and leaders of the people. It is equally true that we do not train newspaper publishers who undertake to mould public opinion. Nevertheless, William Randolph Hearst has his ideas on the subject...
Blow glass into a hollow sphere, kick it about like a football. Mould glass into a tumbler, heat it to the point where pieces of paper in the tumblers are charred, plunge it into cold water. These are tests which were withstood by recently discovered "unbreakable glass...
...Raymond loomed large in the public eye, there were places and needs for a multiplicity of newspapers. The world, figuratively speaking was much larger from the point of view of communication, and the profession was still so young that methods and means were not yet hardened to a universal mould. One paper could scoop another by stealing its railway engine and the Herald could startle the journalistic circle from top to bottom by publishing an interview with John Brown as he lay wounded in the jail at Barper's Ferry...
...taking part in a referendum which will have a very vital significance in determining the policies adopted by the leaders in national affairs. If this plan is endorsed by a large majority, it will show that public opinion is behind international cooperation, and the politicians will have to mould their attitudes accordingly...
...Rise of Rosie O'Reilly. George M. Cohan is responsible for this obvious "defy" to the Ku Klux Klan. He has been responsible for several others from the same mould in the past few seasons...