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Word: sham (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Butler's Charter Day address at the University of California he quoted a young Englishman as saying that "politics unfortunately abounds in shams that must be treated reverentially by every politician who would succeed." But President Sproul, who spoke later in the day to the alumni, showed no such reverential attitude toward a particular sham menacing the higher educational standards of the State of California. This young president had the courage to describe the proposal to distribute the State's higher educational funds among at least nine institutions besides the university as "the intemperate oratory of demogogues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The End of the Rainbow | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...service. California, with its State university (enjoying also large private endowments), its Stanford University and its institutions of superb technical and scientific equipment, is best served and is best able to serve the nation by maintaining these at topmost intellectual efficiency rather than by dissipating its funds in evoking sham universities out of junior colleges. California cannot hold her place in the educational van if she ceases to concentrate in the higher ranges while recruiting from every part of her democratic life. New York Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The End of the Rainbow | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...anti-imitation. I'm for the use of metal, and I'm trying to bring architecture back to America as something real to America. The proposed World's Fair in Chicago is a conspicuous example of modernism sprung up overnight, of superficiality, sham, imitation. They are making a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses. Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson or Norman Bel Geddes could better have done it. [Norman Bel Geddes is designing several theatres for the fair.] They are specialists in spectacle. But the architecture for the Fair is only bad theatre where theatre does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wrightites v. Chicago | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Representative James Montgomery ("Constitution") Beck: "It should be called the Wicked Sham Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wicker shambles | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Sought out by London reporters, asked to comment, Sir Harry began to chuckle, broke into a giggle, finally roared with laughter-his only comment. Critic Gibbs flays his countrymen in general for reacting to jibes or criticism which they feel keenly "by a sham display of pretended amusement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scotland in Eclipse | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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