Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talk to one another at a distance by means of curious, bell-ringing contraptions connected by wires; who showed them silent, black-and-white scenes of people walking, gesticulating, moving their mouths as in speech, upon a white sheet spread in a dark place; who demonstrated a still stranger spark-spitting apparatus they called a "radio," by which the white men said they talked with their kind far south in the U. S.; who capped all by fitting together on the beach monstrous yellow-backed mechanical birds with red-white-and-blue tails, pushing them out on the water, poking...
Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President of the U. S., sent a present to the Vice President of the U. S. It was a wind shield or, rather, spark shield for a pipe. Mr. Sanders wrote: "Use of this will also prove that the pipe is really not upside down...
...pupils. The former is therefore in greater danger of being misused as a coach, in order to fill up gaps in knowledge just before the examinations and thus turn second-class men into first-class examinees. And his spirit may often be crushed by stupid men who strike no spark in him and in whom no spark can be struck. Lecturers are best suited to deal with such men; for they ask no questions, no, nor answer...
...much vaunted liberties have acted like the juice of the poppy plant, and put, them to sleep. An opinion prevails among many of the Satellites that the man who thinks is a depraved animal. Thus, shunning depravity, they fall blindly into it. Superficial cleverness passes current for wisdom. A spark is mistaken for true fire. They babble of many things, but ponder few. And so the great problems of mankind pass lightly over their untroubled heads, while they chatter about the trifles of yesterday and today...
Premier Herriot's battle with the Catholic Church has brought a hornet's nest about his ears, and may make his position as Premier even more precarious. The strike of school children in Alsace-Lorraino was merely a local skirmish in the nation-wide dissention, but it was the spark which set off the fiery Chamber of Deputies into fist-fight over Herriot's policy. Both sides have lined up for a fight to the finish on the question of what position the Church shall assume in French education...