Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change in a magazine's form arouses sentiment in readers and argument in editors. Change and lack of change have produced The Saturday Evening Post and The Atlantic Monthly. In the case of The World's Work the change consists of larger pages, which increases the size of margins, the addition of colored illustrations and a special illustrated cover. No alteration was made in typography...
...Premier Poincare a few weeks ago. America, though assuming the pose of the onlooker with his feet well out of all dust and dirt, is perhaps inclined to favor the French action. Therefore each side in the debate this evening will voice, to a greater or less degree, the sentiment of its country. Consequently the speeches of each should be fired with a "noble sincerity...
Although the audience settled the point at the time by a walk-out, public sentiment may have changed ere this or perhaps the method of the debaters themselves may have undergone revision. It is hardly likely that the Englishmen, with a possible political life ahead of them, will have renounced their politic and winning manners; but they may have charged themselves with facts and logic. On the other hand the Harvard debaters may have concluded that charm as well as logic is of aid in moving a human audience...
...general examinations there was a distinct understanding that this acceptance did not imply the immediate institution of a tutorial system," said Professor J. D. M. Ford, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages in an interview yesterday. "There was at the time in the division a very decided sentiment against such a system. As a matter of fact the general examinations were only accepted on trial and not with any definite understanding that they were to become a permanent institution. The division however, is never hidebound and if good reasons can be shown in favor of the tutorial system...
...such a sentiment prevail and the gods of efficiency and utility fall not merely in their onslaught on the English universities but in maintaining their sway over American education, it may be due, paradoxically, to their finding themselves better served in the end by the traditional liberal education. Mr. Leys has pointed out that in England among the better business men there is a preference for a man of liberal education. Efficiency and Utility, it must be admitted, are ugly words, but they are so largely because of their connotation of mechanical precision and mass production. In their broader sense...