Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The convention of the National Municipal League, which has just concluded a two-day session at the Harvard Union, draws attention to America's most vital problem in government. As Lord Bryce pointed out, municipal government is the weakest link in the American system. To promote efficient and democratic local...
At Leland Stanford, plans were announced for the establishment of a school of business administration to be laid down along the lines of the famed Harvard school. The report indicated that U. S. Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, Stanford '95, had suggested the new school when in California last...
Even Americans, if thoughtful, will realize that a hybrid, even as American culture is hybrid, he caught the vigor and rude strength of life in newly settled California. His clear, pointed style has swept the ceremonious diction of the Victorian writers from American fiction; and above all, he express that...
It does not seem possible that Mussolini can long maintain his strength by such extra-constitutional means. To justify his methods he has brought forth a succession of bug-bears which he pointed to as the reason and the justification of his violent tactics. But each scare must of necessity...
"I remember once, in my senior year, before a Princeton game, he had just finished talking to the team before going to the field. He had created an atmosphere of determination among the team he had molded us into a set fighting frame of mind, at which art he was...