Word: taints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give a crown of complete fatuity to all that has been said and done about limiting the freedom of the college press, from the University of Northwestern comes the report of a series of restrictions by which the morality of the editor will be strictly guarded from any taint. In the new order of sweetness and light, any reference to birth control is taboo; Miss Margaret Sanger is not to be named in print; Al Capone and his boy friends must not be mentioned; no stories may be printed reflecting on the morality of coeds at Northwestern or any other...
Those who expected to see Mr. Roosevelt rise to the occasion and deliver proof of his freedom from the taint of demagogy will be sadly enlghtened by this, the latest evidence of the justice of that charge. The revealing experience of a long presidential campaign has not dealt kindly with the squire of Hyde Park. The efficient executive who was once regarded as a progressive, strong official has shown himself, on this occasion at least, a man who appeals to partisan passions by platitudes, by stirring quotations,-in short, a demagogue. If Mr. Roosevelt hopes ever to grace the White...
...Oslo. After years of desperate loneliness he chums up with a man who turns out to be Rognaas, the only man ever to take his side. At the height of their intense friendship Rognaas confesses that he was one of the bandits; his story absolves Berger of any taint of cowardice. But Berger cannot tell on his friend, even to justify himself to the whole world. Instead, he hits on a plan to justify himself to Lydersen, his chief antagonist, who has by now become a postmaster. On the evening when post office receipts are reckoned up, Berger calls...
...heat of the patriotic enthusiasm prevalent during 1917 and 1918 many institutions were swept into taking away from great scientists and thinkers the honors given them. A taint of Germanism was sufficient to brand a great man as an enemy to be despised. A slight leaning towards peace was sufficient to label a man a pacifist or a traitor to democracy...
...general Electric company, the Dupont company, and others can afford to give a scientist every possible comfort without even threatening him with a special task. He is not bothered with lectures and tutoring but works to his heart's content in the most theoretical fields. This is a taint of commercialism non the less: it is also a form of advertising on the part of the company, and depletes the university faculties. In this class come institutes endowed by millionaires for special advanced study, valuable as they may be to science, as they rarely hand knowledge directly to a younger...