Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth of the matter is, however, that this inefficiency is inherent in a democratic state. Devise any scheme which separates the law making body from constant dependence on the mass of the people, and the result is a trend away from the principles of pure democracy. And it is upon those theories that the whole framework of American government is based. Its evils must be accepted with its blessings...
...Fred W. Moore categorically confirmed the rumors but implied that the definite settlement of the matter will rest almost entirely on the judgment of the medical authorities. As Dr. T. K. Richards '15, Medical Advisor of the H. A. A., is reported to be heartily in favor of the scheme, little opposition should be encountered in obtaining their approval...
...caustic critic points out that most of these demi-gods were muscle-bound, and that they dissipated in saloons and buggies, whereas the modern youth has only the ice cream parlor and the harmless Ford. Moreover, these huge giants are far too large to fit into the modern scheme of things, subway turnstiles, for example...
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, California and Princeton Professors are collaborating, in a gigantic Pictorial History of the country. The object of the scheme is popular education...
...that sentiment seems to favor such a scheme. Memorial was built in memory of brave warriors. What is more fitting than that it should be used by people to whom war and fighting are so much at heart as the Irish...