Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is some small consolation in the most recent birthrate statistics compiled by Mr. John C. Phillips in the current issue of the Harvard Graduates Magazine under the heading "Success and the Birth-Rate". After numerous surveys of broad cross sections of the population the tabulated results have inevitably pointed...
But the burden of Mr. Lowell's remarks on this occasion were apropriately to the contrary as he pointed out a philosophical escape. Personal success need not turn to ashes and bitter brew if only regarded as the means to a greater end. We need not fall back completely on...
But Mann's interest is not in personalities or in noble characters. It is in the hidden forces of life which work despite men. From the moment of Pastoy's arrival, we are aware of an unusual atmosphere, of a certain tension and grimness. One of the first things which...
U. S. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi pointed to the "surplus of $600,000,000" in the U. S. Treasury, said the country was rich enough to control floods.
Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of the U. S. Army engineers, rose to his feet. General Jadwin reiterated the army-engineer insistence upon levees as the backbone of flood prevention. He said that though the flood has submerged 20,000 square miles, it would have submerged 30,000 had levees...