Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urging, through paid magazine advertisements, industries to locate within their corporate limits, Atlanta, Ga., last week was the most jubilant. The Chevrolet Motor Co. had decided to construct a $2,500,000 branch assembly plant in Atlanta;* and Chevrolet President William S. Knudsen had addressed an eminently quotable phrase to the Atlanta Industrial Bureau: "A plant in your city became not only a possibility, but a necessity...
History. Mrs. Margaret Sanger* invented the phrase "birth control" in her The Woman Rebel (1914). But Mrs. Annie Besant, who has since abandoned the social rebelling of her young matronhood for theosophy and the patronage of Jiddu Krishnamurti (TIME, July 12, 1926), really started this purely modern movement. That was in 1877 when she was prosecuted in England for selling pamphlets on contraceptives. English wives theretofore knew nothing of them; English husbands regarded them as exotic refinements of bawdiness. No English wives who bore children on the duodecimal system learned that any protection existed. They asked their gossips, they told...
Dean Woodbridge touches on an educational nerve center in the phrase which sums up his conclusions: "Education has already produced too many excited individuals. It is producing too few dispassionate scholars." On this point the graduate schools of the country are undoubtedly indicted. The force of education as a projection of knowledge into the future should be nowhere more clear than in the graduate school. Neither pedants nor radicals, but rather teachers with something of the inspirational touch are to be expected when a long overdue attention is paid to what constitutes graduate school eligibility...
...property of most great writing, Author Kennedy balances her characters against each other, slanting her satire at each through the minds of the others. Her work has not yet reached independence of period or place; the praise which it demands and receives must be qualified with some such phrase as, "the best book of the year," "the most brilliant novel of its kind written in a decade." But this perhaps is partly due to the caution of critics who are afraid to have their discoveries forgotten. Author Kennedy is reaching high; more noticeable than ever is her sure and satisfying...
...dedication of the memorial to Percy D. Haughton on Saturday Dean Briggs pictured him with a characteristically happy phrase as a man "unquenchable in spirit, irresistible in command, feared, loved, and honored by all." These are the qualities that make a coach great to the men whom he has in his charge, and there is no one whose judgment is of more worth. The corroboration of the words of Dean Briggs comes from the hundreds of men who worked beneath Percy Haughton at Harvard and elsewhere. All these qualities he had in abundance, and such was his affection for football...