Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps these things are platitudinous, perhaps I err in presenting material which must be all too familiar to intelligent men. Certainly, those beatific doctrines which have earned Mr. John Dewey the gratitude of every politician have been thoroughly punctured. And if any literate men still remain beneath their spell, there is for the purpose of enlightenment Mr. John Chamberlain's brilliant analysis of the vicious circle which is their fallacy. If we have anything describable as thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous...
...working classes. Mansfield points justifiably with pride to his 90-odd thousand votes against Curley last election. Last minute dopesters say Foley's loss of the city employee vote to Nichols has killed his chances. Samuel Seabury's nephew is Parkman's manager and the Judge's support should spell more confidence among the Senator's supporters...
Here was news perfectly timed to take domestic problems off the front page, give the Administration a breathing spell. Scurrying off to file their stories, the correspondents did not forget to credit the President with a major stroke of political strategy...
...governmental and private, which assisted in the confection of the World War could come to the front again, as so many observers are willing to predict, for their zeal has cooled and their money is padlocked, and mere subsistence is difficult for them. The kind of war which we spell with a capital letter is very, very remote; but there is another kind which the poor in all nations and at all times have embraced, and which is, God knows, terrible enough for any taste...
...success of the enterprise will often depend the fate of those who find themselves burdened in the middle of the year with an impossible schedule. If the "Freshman Days" must offer a found of pleasant surprise parties, they should afford what is far more important--an opportunity for a spell of concentrated course research...