Word: points
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your writer failed to make clear one point: did the kids raise one finger or two fingers before going out to the privy ? As I recall, schoolmarms were sharply divided into those advocating the raising of one finger and those advocating the raising of two fingers. There was always considerable suspense among the kids at every change of teachers until that detail was settled. We were never told how many fingers to raise, and the schoolmarm never wrote such instructions on the blackboard in our presence. But after a recess period, or coming to school in the morning we found...
...efforts to point out reasons for our usage would be puny compared to Will McGuire's excellent "A Note on Jook," so I will simply enclose a copy of his work for your information. This is taken from the spring 1938 edition of The Florida Review, published at the University of Florida...
...named Martha. So Terminus became Marthasville, and Statesman John C. Calhoun in 1845 saw what was to come: "Such is the formation of the country between the Mississippi Valley and the Southern Atlantic coast . . . that all the railroads which have been projected or commenced . . . must necessarily unite at a point . . . in the State of Georgia, not far from the village of Decatur. . . ." The point: Atlanta, ex-Marthasville...
...last summer, Earle saw the inner workings of these dim steps to war, but more important, he talked with men of every station, from diplomatic dignitaries down. Only a few days before Germany marched, Earle visited Ambassador Biddle in Poland, and his account of feudal Poland is the high point of the book. It shows clearly the political set-up under which the Polish peasant labored and the nation's reaction to the inevitable annihilation ahead...
Saturday afternoon the high point of the whole conference was reached as a general outlook on the whole subject of propaganda in the modern world was taken. I. A. Richards, University lecturer, and Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of psychology, gave what they considered a proper definition of propaganda and its place in education...