Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years that I have been a reader of TIME I regret the anonymity of your writers. ... It requires an intellect outstandingly brilliant and out standingly self-reliant to be able and daring enough to sum up the lifelong teaching of "America's Greatest Philosopher" [John Dewey] with a statement at the same time devastating and so unobtrusive that most readers will pass it by: "exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher" [TIME...
...comment on your statement that many folk dance steps are as old as "all get-out." Actually they are older I think. I am unable to place "all get-out" accurately in time but I should not put it earlier than the covered-wagon period. The folk lore often expressed is probably thus: a wheel comes unstuck and papa has to fix it. "All get out" he calls and the family climb down with patient resignation...
...only take that accusation as seriously as a remark of that kind can be taken," Mrs. DeHaas said. "After all," she continued, "when they make a statement like that, we can say that our ancestors have been here as long as their have...
...Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, when he was reached yesterday refused to make any statement about the part he would play in the formation and organization of the "Descendants of the American Revolution...
Both the pictures and the Independents, sponsors of the meeting, were heartily endorsed by the Hon. Irwin Laughlin, former United States Ambassador to Spain, who called the movies "the best statement of fact that has come from that area...