Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pedal the fact that the country is on a great Democratic tidal wave? If you did that very thing you would destroy the very thing that makes TIME the one magazine that so many of us depend on for a real account of what has happened. A very common remark these days is, Let's wait and see what TIME has to say about it.. . . JAMES HIGGENBOTTOM...
...inferior in solidity to the secondary schools of England and the Continent," yet still they come, and object violently if refused admission. Not long ago an English schoolmaster declared the present English youth to be dishonest, lazy, and irresponsible. It is only a short step from such a general remark to Mr. Flexner's broad assertions concerning American students. Broadly aimed flank attacks of this kind upon the universities and colleges of a nation soon fall to pieces if the writer's assertions are rigidly tested. Mr. Flexner can however be satisfied that he has given the educational system...
...critical commentator must remark, however, that the committees appointed seem largely composed of men whose own affairs will prevent them from looking very closely into the conduct of Harvard activities. If this be so, the importance of their appointment should be heavily discounted. The value of the visiting committees lies, not in the names which they boast, but in the work which they...
...Mihai's remark about being unable to telephone his mother did Carol no good in Rumania or elsewhere. He ordered that the Crown Prince should telephone his mother, at once...
...note in TIME, Sept. 19, an account of next-President Roosevelt's junket to the West and the remark that "Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley, head of the 'brain trust' which supplies the Governor with economic data," was on the campaign train. I studied political science under Professor Moley at Columbia some eight years ago and thought him shrewd, honest, fearless. His work as head of the Cleveland crime commission (about 1923) brought him wide fame and the attention of a number of Cleveland thugs who waylaid him one night, fortunately without too serious results, because...