Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proper education. He loses much of his leisure, and leisure is necessary for the development of this intellectual curiosity. The active man attains it only in exceptional cases, and consequently he is the one who finishes college with a degree perhaps, but without any education or culture to proclaim to the world any greater academic achievement than that of graduating from his home town high school...
...Department of Agriculture does not state. To the casual observer it would seem that all the packers and restaurateurs would rise in a body to protest against their ancient prerogative of serving tough steak. What is more likely, however, is that the proprietors of food shops will hasten to proclaim that "The Government Says our Steaks are Tender...
...entirely so. In many cases it is to be feared that if all intra-College examinations were abolished, undergraduates free to work as they pleased, would work as little as they pleased. It is not fashionable among undergraduates to admit this fact, but it needs no psychological expert to proclaim its obviousness. Some compulsion there must be, but compulsion in Education is an evil, Harvard should have no more of it than is necessary. Let the student be as free as it is humanly possible...
This bill is now pending before the United States Senate-having been recommended by the committee on military affairs. Its most important prevision is that the President, in time of war, or when war is imminent, shall "determine, proclaim, and conscript the material resources, industrial organizations, and services over which government control is necessary to the successful termination of such emergency...
Arose, many moons ago, Mrs. Margaret Rowen, prophet of the reformed Seventh Day Adventist Church,* to predict the world's end, saying: "My son will return on February 6, 1925. Proclaim it-proclaim it from the skies...