Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should have for more scientific study of the effects of alcoholic drinks, and then a general dissemination of the knowledge gathered in this way. The question is primarily a social one and the average person should be shown how greatly to the advantage of society as a whole Prohibition...
...your periodical is far above the mental standard of that well known person, "the average American." Your witticisms, your skillful use of the English language, the brilliant literary style of your periodical?which as a news publication will probably attain in years to come as great a renown as Addison's "Spectator"?seem to be sadly misunderstood by a large proportion of your readers. Also, and what is more to be deplored, this attitude on the part of an uncultured list of subscribers seems to have reacted on you to the point of lowering the literary standard...
...fact that dog had more methods of approaching a moving point in space than any person I have ever known in Emerson. He did it with the wariness of a Central Square duenna and the nonchalance of two Central Square duennas. I sat for hours and watched him. One does things like that on spring vacations. And then there is now the subtle excuse of being a behaviorist. All of which I must admit I am not, believing sincerely that most behaviorism is at best perfunctory...
...Borah: "Yes, there is scarcely any vice human nature has such that the particular person who possesses it does not resent the fact that the law prohibits or inhibits him from enjoying...
...scientific documents might be dutiable-in the Engineering Societies' Building with their U. S. colleagues. Secretary Hoover of the U. S. Department of Commerce called up by telephone from Washington to say, through an amplifier, how sorry he was not to be able to welcome them in person. Guido Semenza of Italy, the Commission's president, replied. There were formal words of greeting from the heads of the various delegations-including Dr. Howard T. Barnes* of Canada; Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook of England; Professor P. Strecker of Germany; G. J. Darrieus of France; Professor M. Chatelain of Russia...