Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mass schooling and the dissemination of knowledge. But while the dissemination of knowledge has done a great deal it has not done all that was hoped for it. The Guggenheim scholarships are designed not for the students but for the study they may do, and they reflect the awakening suspicion that it is not the dissemination but the getting of knowledge that demands our attention...
Ariadne. There is a distinct suspicion among the cynics that, had this piece been produced by anyone else but the Theatre Guild, it would have stumbled and swiftly disappeared. Yet that extraordinary organization has managed to polish it up smartly, cast it astutely and render it, in general, entertaining...
...Suspicion," says Miss Lowell, ''is a secondary symptom of tuberculosis...
...fasces which the lector bore in front of the Roman consul on occasions of state. In token of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy, every performer in the procession will wear one of these badges upon the left suspender of his overalls, and every badge, to escape the suspicion of favoritism, will read: "Admit one Good only on the date punched...
...word he was appointed. When the corps had done its work, he was chosen Director of the Advisory Committee of the Council of National Defense. Associated with him worked Daniel Willard, Bernard Baruch, Julius Rosenwald, Howard E. Coffin, Samuel Gompers, Charles M. Schwab, A. C. Bedford. Congress looked with suspicion at the Council of National Defense, jealous of its powers, exasperated by its efficiency. Mr. Gifford did not mind suspicion, but he did not permit interference. He did not hesitate to disagree with Secretary of War Baker over matters of policy, expenditure. He won every argument. One week after...