Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy," rejuvenated by Mussolini and his Fascisti, has recently made a venture which "out-Americas America" in its business-like shrewdness. The Italian government has taken up advertising on a scale heretofore unknown. It is not merely distributing pamphlet literature telling of accomplishments and prophecying future greatness. It is not introducing subways in order to produce new advertising space. It has conceived a broad scheme of national advertising, to be accomplished by the patriot ship--"Italia," which is to cruise the seas of South America, carrying specimens of Italian manufacture, art, and literature to all the foremost republics...
...first official bulletin of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America has just been published. It is an eight-page pamphlet reporting the activities and meetings of the I. C. A. A. A. A., giving plans for the annual indoor meet on March 1 and setting forth proposed amendments to the Constitution of the Association...
...course to be offered in the second half year, according to announcements made yesterday. The instructors in three courses have been changed; one course will be dropped; one-half course has been continued as a full course; and two new courses added to those announced in the pamphlet on Courses of Instruction...
...remained outside both factions," he related. After Bloody Sunday, Jan. 9, 1905, he seems to have become an ardent Bolshevik and to have worked hard for the revolution. At the outbreak of the War he fled to Germany and was imprisoned by the Kaiser for writing a seditious pamphlet. He subsequently escaped to France, was expelled and fled to Spain, was again expelled and in January, 1917, he went to the U. S. and lived for several months in Manhattan. Later in the same year, he returned to Russia, took a prominent part in the Bolshevik Revolution...
...arouse as much interest, command as undivided attention, the colleges will do well to revise their courses and weed out their lecturers. The personality of a great professor is often the determining factor in inspiring serious intellectual activity--and while personality can never be suppressed even in a printed pamphlet, the spoken word is a better medium for inspiration than the written. The mental curiosity which is satisfied with a stereotyped lecture cannot be great. And when the colleges begin to suffer from the competition with the People's Institute, and feel themselves turning slowly into laboratories, they will feel...