Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the week-end and into the dawn of Election Day, the pulse of the nation quickened until it sounded like a machine-gun tattoo or a concentrated yip, yip, hooray...
...that. a) The courses in French and German which fulfill the reading requirement are now taken by the majority for that purpose alone. b) The present mechanical nature of their value might be forfeitable altered by a reshaping of each course either to a rough reading outline of the nation's literature or to a reading survey of the brighter contemporaries...
...impassioned descriptions of Rhenish scenery which occur so frequently throughout Germanic literature and which by their very reiteration often arouse an incident skepticism in the un travelled student. Perhaps more difficult to grasp than the appearance of the country position of the student to interpret side of a nation is an understanding of the nature of its people. A language as difficult for the average American as is German often encourages the rather superficial opinion that those whose native tongue it is must be of a corresponding stodginess. This dishis own ineptitude as the natural outcome of the hypothetical pedantry...
Nominee Smith returned to the as-yet-undefended illegal renewal of Oilman Sinclair's lease in the Salt Creek field, Wyoming, by National G. O. P. Chairman Hubert Work when he was Secretary of the Interior last winter (TIME, Oct. 22). He requoted Dr. Work's famed remark: "People are tired of hearing of these oil leases." He quoted Nominee Hoover's one comment: "I will not discuss that matter." The textile depression in New England was a fair target for the critic of Coolidge Prosperity. Nominee Smith cited the average wage of textile workers, $17.30 per week, and contrasted...
From the kaiser-by-grace-of-god who declared in 1905: "We are the salt of the earth," to the American Bar Association committee on citizenship who quite recently formulated a credo: "I believe that we Americans have the best government that has been created" smug pride of nation still persists, but it is steadily and increasingly challenged by Jeremiads such as Spengler's Decline of the West, Einstein's scorn of U. S. intelligence, Siegfried's despair of U. S. materialism. Just how science and the machine have affected civilization; just what the possibilities are of self-destruction, "decline...