Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isles of Fear preceded her Mother India as a sensational bestseller, calling her a "vile propagandist" who had represented as typical of the Philippines such "filth" as she could find in the "sewers." He cited for inconsistency with the present Philippine policy of the U. S., many a glowing period on liberty and independence by President Coolidge, Charles Evan Hughes, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. He argued that the Philippines were capable of economic independence, even if faced with a U. S. tariff wall, as suggested by the fact that smaller, poorer, less populous and less literate republics are increasing their...
Victoriana. Her Majesty never possessed higher or more passionate epistolary powers than at the period covered by these letters (1879-1885).* Slashingly she underlines whole sentences and underscores two or three times her more emphatic phrases. The grand themes are first her grief at the political eclipse and final death of Benjamin Disraeli, "dear Lord Beaconsfield;" and secondly her rage at William Ewart Gladstone whom she would certainly have called a Bolshevik had the word then been invented...
...lowest snake, Mayor W. J. Davidson took the eggs to his heated office and gave them a place in the sun, atop his desk. Last week he noticed the box vibrating. He looked into it and found seven infant snakes crawling about, frisky and healthy after an incubation period of seventy-seven years. The seventy-seven years were calculated from the hand forged spike and by the rings of the tree...
Likewise the two-hour period of manual work is out of place in a college. In an ordinary institution of liberal arts the student has no particular need of such training; in technical and agricultural schools, his entire work is in this line. Such specialization may be an evil, but it is a necessary preparation for a specialized world...
...Harvard the greater significance of personal effort in study, as compared with instruction, has been emphasized by the tutorial system, by the general examinations, and most recently, by the Reading Period...