Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paid for their important services, and since their names are noticed or remembered by very few voters, they are scarcely honored. Moreover, the electors of any State may be chosen by a minority of the voters of the State, yet the Presidential votes represent the entire State. Only a student of government or a thoroughly professional politician can explain what the Electoral College actually is and does, the reason being that it has been transformed from an important bit of governmental machinery to an inconspicuous, though still essential, instrument of party politics...
...said William Crapo Durant, stock-market student, motor manufacturer (Durant Motors, Inc.). He was not talking about himself and he felt he had a right to talk that way about other business leaders, because he was offering $25,000 for the best plan neatly typewritten in 2,000 words and submitted before December 1 to the prize committee on the 18th Amendment, room 2401 Fisk Building, New York City, a plan, "To make the 18th Amendment effective...
Every now and then, what the newspapers call an "epidemic" breaks out in the U.S. One season it will be influenza; another season, student suicides; another season, inventions for television or color cinema. This month, gambling scandals were the national "epidemic...
Married. Myron Weiss, Associate Editor of TIME; to Luba Wies, Boston law student; by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; in Manhattan...
...taste, research from Reed Institute at Portland, Oregon, last week, cast doubt. P. Lorillard Tobacco Co. (Old Gold) in particular has been illustrating its extensive advertisements with photographs of famed persons choosing Old Golds while blindfolded from among other brands. Reed Institute laboratory tests by one Louis Goodman, graduate student, however, show that only once in nine times on the average does one recognize his favorite cigaret whether he is blindfolded...