Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Notes From a Soviet Diary" by Mr. Charles Sanders Pierce are mainly interesting to a student of the new cinema art. On other matters they are notably observant and fair minded, lacking the prejudiced pro or con attitude toward social Russia which characterises the writings of so many modern students and travellers...
Countless generations of fox hunting folk have established a crystalized vernacular. "A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H." (Master of Fox Hounds) is social head of the hunt, and disciplinary leader of "the field"; other riders are "fox hunters" or "riders-to-hounds"; "hunter," used singly, refers to a jumping horse used for following hounds...
...Superficial observers seem to find no destiny for our abounding increase in population, in wealth and power except that of imperialism. They fail to see that the American people are engrossed in the building for themselves of a new economic system, a new social system, a new political system-all of which are characterized by aspirations of freedom...
...still Peter seethed with activity. He strained and strained trying to think of something to do in which you got a long way but didn't have to give up anything to get there. Finally he hit upon it,--he would become a social lion and an activities man. That was the combination. You spent your days with the best men, and in the evening you strutted your wares before the pride of the city's society...
William Donald Turner 3G of Hey-worth. Illinois has been awarded one of twenty-eight research fellowships, it was announced recently by the Social Service Research Council. Under these grants, scholars are sent all over the world to conduct original investigations in the fields of history, economics, political science, education, and sociology...