Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...green lawns beneath deep-shading palm, pepper, eucalyptus and umbrella trees, the fragrance of summer all about us, and love the tonic warmth as one never could the sticky, muggy afternoons of the middle west, where I grew up. We keep our houses closed and cool and dark, and open them to the almost unfailing night breeze. We go cool and peacefully to sleep-as one does not in July and August in Iowa-and long before morning we grope for blankets...
...could go on at some length, expanding on the virtues of TIME, but, believing that brevity is the soul of wit, I hesitate to lay myself open to charges of being a halfwit, therefore I hasten to the end, adding only that I am convalescing after an attack of encephalitic paralysis and TIME has materially aided in keeping my disposition bearable for my family...
...just returned from Europe. He said the Committee must get the details from his subordinates. But he was delighted to give the Committee and the world the benefit of his long experience as an employer: "It has been a broad policy into which the question of the open shop or union labor does not enter. As the result of my forty years' management of labor I have never had a serious difficulty with my men in my lifetime. I believe in the eld theory of supply and demand...
...time Harvard enforces a set of language requirements for the express purpose of insuring every students' having a reading knowledge of at least one foreign language and an elementary knowledge of another before he is graduated from the College. The purpose is undeniably laudable; the actual results, however, are open to serious question...
Professors of art have indeed a great responsibility, and when uninspired scholarship and casualness take the place of enthusiastic interest and brilliant appreciation they are open to the severest censure and condemnation. To many, the English Department has taken on that character to a decided degree in the past few years. It is a pity that one cannot be brutally frank and use names; but when one of the "promising young instructors" tells you that it is his "job" to lecture and that it is not his or anybody else's business how his audience responds to him, and, consequently...