Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superpatriotic parts of the U. S. press (Hearst, et al.) interpreted this announcement as a notable "reaction" to the President's speech. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Indeed, the Navy Department was at pains to explain that it was merely repeating what it had said since the international naval disarmament conference of 1922, to wit, that, within the agreed capital-ship limit, the U. S. Navy should be kept 100% efficient...
Charmingly written, Harness develops poignantly a man's fine emotion, sympathetically a woman's illogical but inevitable reaction...
...CRIMSON agrees with the Herald in regretting the break and in favoring the resumption, even if temporary, of Harvard-Brown games. The sentiment at Providence is evidently not hostile either to Harvard or to such a revival of relations, although the first might not be an unnatural reaction. fortunately Brown and Harvard have been associated too long to accept the common misinterpretation of matters as the result of ill-feeling; though this mutual regard exists today between the two universities, failure to take advantage of it might too easily lead to an actual break in place of the present artificial...
...European Reaction. Italian correspondents cabled from London to Rome that popular indignation was rising among Britons against the Baldwin Cabinet for having stupidly and wantonly baited President Calvin Coolidge...
...fact that the Confidential Guide id in no wise intended to dogmatic, such a feeling of resentment would be entirely justified. No individual undergraduate can pretend to appraise a course in such fashion as to do justice to all of its possibilities to share his personal reaction. The Confidential Guide is a collection of individual reactions-reactions intended as guide posts to other students, which may also be reasonably expected to bring out here and there points of vital weakness or strength...