Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy your magazine TIME very much. I am 12 years old and live in Davenport, Iowa. I find in your issue of TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, that an item entitled "Shrewd," the second item under the head of "Miscellany," is sort of funny. It is about a man that cheats a store proprietor out of a lot of money on a telephone call. As you will find if you read the item, the call was given at Union City, N. J. to Charleston, S. C. The man talked 41 minutes and told the proprietor it cost $1.75. In reality...
...many times on the same blood-clot. Nevertheless we remember that there have been in years a gone double-decker novels whose power increased with their size. Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil" was such a one; it captured a dinky little Nobel Prize or something of the sort. Then there was Fielding's "Tom Jones"--pretty good for an old-timer, what...
...Kelly does not strive for superficial humour; it is here out-of-place. Mirth ripples through the lines, but it is of the sort that provokes internal laughter and the delighted eye, not the yokel's guffaw. Whenever Mr. Kelly courts the latter, he fumbles. One cannot help but feel that on the opening night the dead flop of these lines must have caused him chagrin and that he may have learned a well-pointed lesson...
...this might be, it must always be unimportant in comparison to the significance of the personal attitude involved. Until the student can stimulate in himself a challenging spirit toward the patterns of knowledge which a professor can furnish, he has only himself to blame. It is only in some sort of provocative skepticism that he will find the true meaning of his education...
...educational venture of any sort, success must be read in great part in terms of the amount of individual and collective rebellion which it inspires. The attitude of its administrators must recognize that the best patterns are those which are most fragile. Mr. Bertrand Russell has pointed out somewhere that the State of New York until very recently held it to be a criminal misdemeanor to teach communism while Soviet Russia had enacted laws to require the teaching of communism. Either the state of New York or Soviet Russia was wrong about communism, and they were both wrong about education...