Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fewer elementary schools-now than there were under the Tsarist regime, that there is a great increase in crime among children. And them there is the appalling spectacle of the: child-prostitute. In other words, the Bolsheviki have risked ruining Russia in order to put theories to the test. Now they are: trying to build up what they have destroyed, with worn-out tools. Dr. Nansen wants the world to help supply new tools, to help the Russian nation back to prosperity. He argues that it is impossible to see into the future by looking backwards...
That college should find it desirable to test new ideas of staging, as well as to train playwrights, is somewhat of an Indictment against regular producers. In his recent book Oliver Sayler wrote to the American producer that: "At his worst he is without parallel for ignorance, incompetence. At his average, he is an excellent showman. The fact that experimentation is costly explains perhaps why until recent years very little departure was ever made from the usual manner of selecting and presenting plays. Even low the public is somewhat apathetic to innovations, as certain English producers discovered to their sorrow...
...ravages. It may take two or three generations, but eventually there will be no more parched throats in need of alcoholic lubrication. Those responsible for this law, so odious to the selfish and narrow minded, had in mind its effects on future generations. Mr. Leonard speaks of the great test of popular approval but does not seem to be able to look beyond his own nose. Since the primary benefit was expected to accrue to those yet unborn, five years is no test at all. It is up to us to lay aside our appetites and personal desires...
...government by rule of constitutional law and majority decision when a wealthy and educated class begin to think that our democracy and our capitalism are so sage and secure from attack that they afford them the privilege of exemption from plain provisions of the law and the constitution. The test of democracy is not obedience to a law we all favor, it is our attitude to a law we may not like. Even if we don't like the 18th amendment, let's obey it. We asked the railroad shopmen, a year ago, to obey an act of Congress which...
Obviously the easiest way to distinguish between reformers is by the methods they would use to achieve their ends; yet as Professor Sprague has implied this test is no longer valid. It is not impossible, however, to define a true issue between socialist and non-socialist. The one regards the present social organization as a false expression of human nature, the other regards it as a system which needs improvement but is essentially reflective of mankind. Each makes an assumption as to the nature...