Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believes that he is a failure, not is convinced that some particular effort, adventure or plan of his has failed. The difference is vital. The man who runs his head repeatedly into the same stone wall has the kind of head least likely to be affected by the process. He shows perseverance, but not determination to succeed. Wisdom consists in changing the method as the result of experience while retaining the object; or to state the same thing in a larger way, if the purpose of a man in life is to do something of real value, and after sufficient...
...child. He was convicted under the Nebraska law and his conviction upheld by the State Supreme Court. The decision of the highest court in the land was based on the Fourteenth Amendment, which declares that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law." The Court held the Nebraska law an infraction of the individual's liberty. The decision invalidates similar laws in 20 other states...
Broom, queer art magazine, has removed from Europe to America, skipping two issues in the process. There is more art to insurge about in Europe, but economic conditions are better here...
...study will enable the dullards to get by. Many who go in for "cramming" retain their acquired information only just long enough acquired information only just long enough to use it in the examinations. It has to be hammered into their heads, and without such a drastic process would never get in at all. But it more attention were paid to helping students learn how to organize their studies, how to systematize and analyse their work, fewer men would resort to "cramming" schools and undergraduates would get out of their studies more than they do now. New York Times...
Really, it is hard to find fault with any part. Careful examination reveals one incorrect title and two or three photographs which did not come through the engraving process with complete success. These defects are mentioned to show that the reviewer is impartial, and with the hope that the sincerity of his praise will be undoubted...