Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This reaction, blurred in all cases by local issues, is not a complete repudiation of socialistic tendencies, but is an expedient adopted because socialism in practice has been found an idea with too few heads to comprehend. There still remains in opposition a strong liberal element which will ride the wagon but not steer...
...more familiar woods, and little has been heard from him since. Some commentators have had him dead and others considered his species extinct; but now comes a persistent rumor that he is to return, groomed and fit, the "dark horse" of the next Presidential Derby in 1924. Who will ride him is not announced and the logical man for the job, Senator Borah of Idaho has done his best publicly to disclaim the honor...
Unlike the Military Science courses here, the Cambridge system is not one of a number of courses, but is a special field to which the student gives most of his time. His day, for example, begins at six o'clock, when he is required to ride for an hour if he is in a mounted branch of the service. The Cavalry and Infantry detachments are strongest at Cambridge, though a great many branches are represented. Besides the regular winter work, each student is required to spend one month every summer at a military camp. The work here...
...days, of individuals spending days, or weeks in a convict prison, involving a considerable amount of hardship, to receive, at the end of the period, a certain pecuniary' reward. In the past education could be compared to effort of this sort, but its modern version is more like a ride in a Pullman car, with only the fare to pay and a tip for the porter at the end of the journey. Of course, paying the fare is sometimes an inconvenience, but most things have to be paid for, even the unreturned shirts in last week's laundry. Education still...
...already almost a disgrace to be seen walking. One should always get into his automobile if he is going more than four blocks. An old-fashioned stroll is a series of embarrassing rejections of invitations to ride from kind-hearted and invitations to ride from kind-hearted and pitying motorists. Every self-respecting citizen waits for the elevator rather than walk down one flight of stairs...