Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inexorable experts droned on, grinding out a plan for German Reparations. When the Anglo-Saxon bankers three weeks ago forced Poincaré to agree to accept the Dawes report, the tough, wiry little French Premier had to swallow a big, bitter pill. But when the swelling volume of anticipatory roars, groans and squeals arose from across the Rhine and when the very idea of such a plan gave gooseflesh to the goose-steppers, the French decided that the Dawes plan might not be such a bad thing after...
...nothing can be accomplished. The general public lies between these antipodes, but the general public is practically inarticulate. This referendum therefore offers the first opportunity for the public to decide on the League per se; always providing that the public reads and digests the Plan itself, and does not swallow the misleading summary kindly printed on the ballots...
...artistic talent bring him reasonable success. An abortive love affair with a co-worker is ended abruptly by the lady's untimely suicide; he finally marries a childhood sweetheart, against his mother's passionate protest, and finds in her a voracious wife who does her best to swallow his soul and finally runs away with another man; he loses his mother-a miracle of sympathy and self-abnegation-on the same evening; he finally sees a new beauty opening for him in a new love. This time he loves " for character, which is the only true thing...
False Degrees. American universities swallow an alien spirit? the ultra-German type of intellectual specialization. The increasing vogue of higher degrees, obtained by soul-destroying research, blunts and narrows the teacher and keeps red-blooded young men away from the teacher-business...
What poppycock! The undergraduates are so many goldfish in a transparent bowl, opening their mouths to suck in what is thrown at them in the guise of food. They swallow everything. This is a good figure; I shall copyright...