Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give and take offense and often almost boorish in his treatment of inferiors. His passion was imperialism and no toe, no matter to whom it belonged, escaped his heel if its owner got in the way of his policy. Few men were a match for him in withering invective; none surpassed him. He was a statesman of the old Victorian school, which had much to commend it but which is now something of an anachronism...
...effect of seven candidates running for the Presidency has done little to alter the situation (TIME, Mar. 23), except to make it practically certain that none of them will obtain a plurality of the total vote. Therefore, it seemed probable that there will not be an elected President of Germany until Apr. 26, when a second election requiring only a relative majority will be held...
...unusually warm day in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. A warm breeze blowing up from the south had raised the temperature to 60°-75°. A cold wind was approaching from the northwest. Any meteorologist could have predicted that a storm was due- but none predicted what took place. Shortly after noon, Death came from the skies. It struck first in Missouri, touched Biehle and Annapolis, hurdled the Mississippi River into Illinois, in the unaccountable way of such storms, and struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most...
...fencing there is none of that. You see your friend's weakness. You say, 'You will fence with me, Monsieur?' And then he gets a touch, two. Your pride is hurt? Never mind. Tomorrow you can take a lesson. Next day you may beat him. You are not mad: you are not hurt...
...Kallen states as his belief: "If education has established habits of such a sort that no claim to authority can be acknowledge before it has made itself good, and none can be rejected until it (i.e. the claim) has failed to make good, the function of education in a democratic community has been served; freedom has been safeguarded." Immediately afterwards he questions whether this rather cumbersomely expressed ideal will ever be realized. He fears that the complex organization imposed on the American educational system kills the spirit of independent inquiry. This picture is indeed repulsive; unfortunately...