Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What, then, is the primary object of a college education? "It is," says President Hibben of Princeton, "to fit each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being." It is, is it not, to equip young men to play their full part in the life of their several communities, to give them a keener appreciation of the duties of citizenship, to enable them to contribute something of value to the well-being of their fellowmen. It teaches the obligations...
...that he not only allows political opposition in the country, but, unheard of in most Dictatorships, allows himself to be criticised in the public press and refuses to accept any salary. Actually. Hippolito Irigoyen not only dictates the policies of Argentina, but, distrusting most of his ministers, attempts to perform most of the routine work of the country himself...
Method: Mr. Marchand hires a big hall, plasters his posters around town, delivers lectures on the newest developments in U. S. business. Sometimes he uses industrial cinemas donated by prominent manufacturing concerns. Sometimes he has his corps of assistants perform a little drama on the stage intended to show the right and wrong way to do business. Classic Marchand example of commercial wrongheadedness is the case of Wrigley's chewing-gum when first introduced into England. Britons would not chew until the word gum?which signified nothing but raw rubber?was changed to "sweet...
...perform. He's too busy. He avoids a fight as long as possible. But when it becomes the only alternative, he gives 'em hell...
...would assume the entire burden of enforcement . . . or create an enormous police force. . . . True, there is no legal way of compelling state legislatures to enact enforcement statutes or to compel state authorities to aid in enforcement. ... In those states which have repealed enforcement statutes and whose authorities do not perform a proper share of the work, there will continue to be grave deficiencies in enforcement. Where such conditions exist, they are a matter of choice with the states...