Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...text of this reminder was not public, nor is it likely that the public will have immediate knowledge of the replies. In such delicate matters as money, secret diplomacy is not outworn...
...noted that the "League of Nations" nowhere appeared in the text, which seemed purposely designed to free the functions of the central office from the jurisdiction of the" League. Not a nation, with the exception of Canada, could accept the amendment; and, after some lengthy polemics, the question was referred to committee. As a compromise, it was finally decided to have no central international office...
This sprawling "essay in economic interpretation . . . a text book of culture . . ." which "will be serving in the schools of Russia within six months," labors two rather self-evident main points: 1) That many an artist now called "great" was a comfortable parasite upon the body plutocratic of his day; 2) that the word "propaganda" may connote the exertion of unconscious as well as conscious efforts to further a doctrine...
Scopes had continued, after the evolution bill became law, to use a text-book previously approved by state authorities...
...term the tutor decides what his pupil is going to read--though the order of subjects is more or less set by custom. He then assigns an essay subject, and gives a generous list of suggested reading. The subject is usually controversial, not to be written from text-books. It ought, however, to imply the study of important events and of a fairly long period, so that a series of eight essays approximates a connected study of what we should call a course. Such, for example, as "Was Magna Carta a reactionary fuedal document?" or "What was the effect...