Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When asked about the value of a college education in politics, Mr. Whiting was loud in its praises. "Outside of the mere bookish information which you acquire, college gives one a broader outlook on life and one's fellow men, and that after all is one of the greatest qualities a politician can have. In fact, all but seven presidents of the United States have been college graduates...
...industrial conditions, therefore, rather than to stock prices, that business is looking for guidance; and the outlook is more than usually confused. In most lines, the trend is undoubtedly toward improvement, particularly in the very barometric steel industry. Nevertheless, the lesson of the first quarters of 1923 and 1924 are still fresh in mind. In both cases, prices rose with increased demand and prospects grew rosy. Manufacturers, however, opened up and speedily unloaded goods on the market in such quantity that prices fell again and production languished...
...like the chances", he continued, "which you get here to go into journalism and dramatics while in college. It makes voa much more independent and selfreliant than the German student, and broadens your outlook. In regard to cholastic work, on the other hand. I think you are much more dependent. Your authorities allow you nowhere near the amount of freedom which German students have. A certain amount of compulsion is undoubtedly necessary, however...
...industrial news is beginning to confirm the speculative assumptions made so vigorously this fall by the stockmarket. Colonel Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland, sage of pig iron, is cheerful over the iron and steel outlook. Increased steel buying and increased prices are reported; the industry is now operating on a 70% basis. Wheat futures continue to rise under shortage, while staple agricultural prices are high and firm. Many industries are patently turning the corner. Imports and exports of gold are both increasing, but despite large recent foreign loans floated here, domestic money remains abundant and cheap...
However undesirable Dr. Straton's attitude may appear, it but represents the Fundamentalist outlook upon life--carried to an absurd extreme. Once the Bible is accepted as the ultimate and sole source of absolute truth, this acceptance colors one's view of the whole universe. Evolution becomes an impossible theory, questions of monogamy are labelled as sinful, and speculations upon the nature of God are condemned as the direst sort of heresy. While the Bible will always play an important part in the life of mankind, when it is invoked to check suggestions of improvements in the social order...