Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grocery businesses. I am by no means sure, however, that the trade generally is prepared to install the detailed records that would be necessary to secure practical results. Personally I should not be interested in going any further with a cost accounting investigation unless there was evidently a widespread sentiment in the trade indicating that a substantial number of wholesale grocers would keep the essential detailed accounts, and I have serious doubts on this point...
...much to turn out scholars as to mould men". For that reason it feels confident that "the majority of undergraduates, as well as a considerable section of the alumni, are absolutely opposed to any system of admission based solely on the record made in entrance examinations". Such a sentiment must of course result in a plea for the abandonment of scholarship as the fundamental test of entrance; personality is suggested instead...
President Harding has designated this week as "Forest Protection Week", in an attempt to bring national attention to the bills now being prepared calling for supervision of the timber supply. These measures have slight chance of being passed, however, unless a really powerful sentiment is aroused throughout the country by those in favor of the movement...
...these latter, the only hope is some sort of liberal insurance policy such as the "Tribune" contributor describes. There are doubtless thousands of families who would welcome such a scheme were it offered by any reliable company. But since sentiment on such matters is necessarily unorganized, and so inarticulate, it is the insurance agents who must take the first step by establishing a policy of this kind...
...critics in Cleveland, Buffalo and Albany, on the other hand, as well as the general public, were highly pleased. One expressed the sentiment of the audience by stating that the play was a same presentation of modern youth. Spectators away from Boston and New York seemed to take pleasure in finding that the Workshop was playing a piece that was not "highbrow",--that interested and amused them...