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Word: needful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear that the system is not applicable to Harvard. The mere mention of a class mass meeting is enough to damn it. Nevertheless there is a need for a method by which the name of the nominee will have some significance in the mind of the voter. A brief mention of the position and activities of the candidate, printed on the ballot, would serve in some measure to acquaint the voter with the aspirant for office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO'S WHO | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

Scarcely two months ago, with the diplomatic conference of President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald, there was forged the latest and strongest link in the chain. With this recent development, the outlook for the future is indeed brighter; public sentiment coupled with public recognition of a need is the first requisite of an extensive reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPPLY AND DEMAND | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

Censorship need not be official to be effective. One Manhattan publishing house has lately learned this truth. The publishers are Charles Scribner's Sons. The unofficially censored book is Edwin Franden Dakin's Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of a Virginal Mind, published by Scribner's last August, now unobtainable at many a bookstore. The unofficial censors are Christian Scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scientific Censorship | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...respective skyscrapers. The vertical city quickly fills up, work is begun. Shortly after noonday the working day is over-"the city will empty as though by a deep breath." If man applies himself, says Le Corbusier, the ideal can be realized. He sums up: "Immense industrial undertakings do not need great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Future Cities | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...brought from Rome. I think it was of some felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders and back completely, and coming well over the horse's crupper; it was also well turned up in front and at the sides, so that one had no need of a cloak against the rain, and in hot weather it was as good as a little house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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