Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here at last is proper championship for the maligned denizens of the broad highway. And the defense is sound. Who, indeed, could suffer the meadows of Jersey from a Lehigh car window were it not for the rampant pianos and couchant spark plugs of commercialism which color the horizon? Life's sadder spots are indeed rouged to good purpose by the devices of bill posting...
MISSIONARIES are vastly misundstood--even by themselves. So when Raymond Weaver from his cloistered Morningside attempts to place the spark of real life in the bodies of some soul savers at Kurodani in the Island Empire, one feels an interest akin to that aroused by a study of any community of gods or devils, not yet quite understood by the world at large...
...steel may strike the flint many times before a spark ignites the tinder. Two hundred and fifty-one times in the past year, by actual count, the immigration section of the Department of Labor had denied admission to the U. S. to persons ineligible according to law -to persons who admitted having committed a crime or misdemeanor involving "moral turpitude."* On the 252nd time the tinder went up in lurid flames...
...more an Italian as well as a world power? "It is all conversations," replied the Cardinal. "He [Mussolini] does us an amiable favor from time to time but nothing is changed. I see no prospect of a change. Papal Rome is adamant." In a last attempt to strike a spark of Italian patriotism, the reporter asked about the proposed revivification of the Roman Empire. The Cardinal chuckled: "Oh, you like novelties in Paris . . . a new Roman Empire growing from its ashes-dead for so long...
...that such a course ought to be taught in secondary and high schools and, therefore, has no place at Harvard, is merely to repeat Spark's old argument. Why, then, is it still given? And why does almost the entire Freshman class still take it? The obvious answer is that students do not order their precollege work correctly. But even so, are secondary schools never to assume their proper burden and really prepare boys for college? Certainly they never will so long as colleges consider it their duty to teach all the odds and ends of elementary subjects preparatory schools...