Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed phrase originally coined in the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact (TIME, July 30), is substantially repeated in the preamble of the Arbitration Pact wherein the signatories "condemn war as an instrument of national policy." But whereas the Kellogg-Briand Pact stops there, the Arbitration Pact of last week goes on to say that the signatories "adopt obligatory arbitration as the means for the settlement of their international differences. ..." This later pledge is the absolute heart and core of what was accomplished, last week, and is carefully elaborated in the treaty's nine articles, binding the nations firmly to arbitration...
TIME has justified its existence by that single flare of genius. It is a phrase worthy to be rescued from ephemeral journalism to take its place proudly in American literature...
...soon as the newspapers came out, the populace learned that Mr. Hoover had called their country "the world's bread basket." The phrase sounded new and original in Buenos Aires and it "took" tremendously. There were headlines about it, as well as about the various newborn babies who were to be christened "Herbert" or "Hoover," and leading editorials complaining politely about the exclusive U.S. tariff...
...freedom to pick over and weekout candidates for college entrance to advantage, but it can be easily abused. In a liberty of choice guaranteed by such a nebulous phrase as "high academic distinction and good moral character" lies the danger that it may be used to the benefit of a general type of student whose preponderance in the College might appear to insure a balance perhaps acceptable. But the injustice to the candidate is apparent, and the gain of Harvard in the too-liberal employment of selective right is doubtful...
...think of education not as a tool to enable them to be useful. To men who prize a Harvard education, or any education, not for its value to something to be determined later, but for the opportunity which it offers for individual growth free of curbing restraint, the phrase will convey a meaning not in accord with what they have conceived, to be the glory of Harvard...