Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last October one of the four, Brooke Alexander, had the idea of creating a high-pressure organization to mould campus opinion for national advertisers. To help him he took in three classmates, John Harlow, Robert Burrows and Reo Kelly. First problem was to get a client. They sold the idea to Philip Morris & Co. The next was to build the organization. In 39 Eastern colleges they acquired agents, all of them prominent students and most of them on college papers...
...activities and deep research into local and personal records have resulted in an account as detailed as a novel and written in much the same manner. Kaufman was fortunate in the choice of a subject for this style of writing since his principal character fits exactly into the mould which would be chosen by a romatic author...
...aftermath of the pacifist demonstration in the Yard on Friday came to light yesterday when it was noticed that part of the gun that has been parked downstairs in the Union for so long that it has begun to mould, had disappeared...
Surely it should not require a year to mould the prospective scholar into ductile shape for upperclass work; at least, that year should involve a progress beyond his intellectual adolescence. The standards in the elemental subjects with which the prospect has chosen to arm himself to pass the Chairman of Admissions must be raised so that these subjects need not be taught to such students in College in their introductory form. None would suggest the elimination of primary courses, but they should become the canape rather than the cocktail of the freshman year...
...last week's British Press Convention, "little more than a monstrous invasion of individual privacy." That journalism is sufficiently isolated in Great Britain to make its proboscis glitter; in the republic it is always with us, and there is scarcely an important daily whose policy it does not mould and inform. We have developed, by our demand, a large class of journalistic ferrets with no art but that of intruding themselves where they are not wanted, no talent save for the wholesale violation of confidence and the ambiguous techniques of defamation. For one of these men the republic has reserved...