Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational system is the target for reformers of all kinds. We try desperately with tests, informational and psychological, to reduce the human element, much after the manner of railroad transportation. One result is that we tend to emphasize the knowledge that can be tested conveniently. It is far easier to see if the child knows the words and dates of so many authors, than it is to find out whether he has absorbed the bases of a real literary appreciation and taste. This is true to a greater extent even in music, as Dr. Davison shows in this book...
Anonymity is a convenient shelter from which to shoot ink-venomed arrows at the broad target of worldly foibles. Unfortunately this system, so advantageous to the attacker, has come under the ban common to all unsportsmanlike conduct. Ever since the Arabian nights, the public has regarded invisibility as an unfair weapon...
...conversions himself before he proceeds to the next sentence. Yet professor McAdie is well-known as an ardent advocate of these new units, has fought a hard battle for their adoption, and naturally does not want to let any opportunity slip by without having another shot at his target...
...which has its terminus across the square from the City Hall; Hylan, dubbed "Red Mike," with his red hair only partly dimmed from sitting several years on a Judge's bench; Hylan, whom all dailies except the Hearst papers made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests" and volunteered to defend the populace from their "schemes...
Open House. Helen MacKellar, who was the target of so much grimy advertising in The Good Baa Woman fuss, does not seem to be a lucky picker. This latest is one of the vast flood of inferior pieces that have come along lately. It is about a big-business man who forced his wife to flirt with prospective customers and thus assist in the acquisition of great contracts. The play was bad and most of the acting, Miss MacKellar's excepted, was very bad indeed...