Word: producted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examination which would test the student's intelligence and ability to apply his knowledge is a product of the technical schools and certainly is a distinct improvement over the examination in use today in other lines of endeavor. Until examinations are given in such a spirit, until they become useful rather than artificial, until they serve as a test for understanding rather than the capacity to cram, they are one of the gravest defects in America's sieve-like educational system. Penn State Collegian. June...
...youths and girls from Berea College, in Kentucky, stood unabashedly in front of the camera with President and Mrs. Coolidge while photographers took their pictures. Miss Virgie Wynn had presented Mrs. Coolidge with a quilt, handsome product of the college...
Money Talks (Owen Moore-Claire Windsor). It is an axiom of the movies that any man who starts the picture poor and shows enough initiative must end the picture rich. The process herein is advertising; the advertised product, a sanitarium. The young man sells "bracing air at $2 a sniff," and most of the comedy occurs on a voyage of the first shipload of patients to the haven. They are set upon by rum-runners, whom the young man defeats by dressing as a girl and touching the hard captain's heart. Claire Windsor, as the young...
...three years that followed my admiration for Oxford, and loyalty to my college there, increased with more intimate knowledge. But the same knowledge brought conviction that the really organic, fundamental things that make Oxford what it is are the product of eight centuries of slow ripening, and can be produced in no other way. I returned to Harvard believing that it would be impossible as undesirable to transform our University into a trans-Atlantic Oxford; and this feeling has deepened ever since...
American literature, as a nineteenth century product, has been justly relegated to the mediocrities. American poets sometimes reached the second rung of the ladder; several prose writers attained peerage with their English contemporaries. But on the whole, even where Americans mastered technique, it is generally conceded that their field of expression was always restricted and often provincial...