Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers of the country have received the satire with attitudes varying from disgust to enthusiasm. The New London Times condemns it as "juvenile sophistication." while the Boston Advertiser hails it as a "wild rebel fling." But all opposition notwithstanding more copies of the H. B. S. number have been ordered than can be filled at present. Hence the new edition...
Emerson, scarcely in the upper half of his class at graduation, a queer follow with few warm friends, and a natural rebel against his college assignments, could hardly have been expected by contemporaries to achieve great prominence. Yet, of the Harvard class of 1921, his name is today the most illustrious...
...were carried, out of the buildings, it would only add to the swirling clouds of dust which arise from the untidy gravel walks. All this the student can endure with an occasional grumble but when the air with in these buildings becomes bad, then both his nature and reason rebel...
...South, Dr. Sun Yatsen, "perpetual rebel", was reported hostile to the warlords who controlled Peking...
Obviously improvement in human efficiency implies advance in intelligence. And as intelligence increases, capacity for unhappiness increases. Men who are capable of high efficiency rebel against spending their lives screwing on bolt 13 or hammering nail 127. A thinking man is happy if he is working toward some goal which he can reasonably hope to attain. The prospect which greater efficiency holds out to the intelligent worker is the possibility of becoming a more nearly perfect cog in the system which he already hates. By what strange stretch of the imagination, can one call this making workers happier? Indeed...