Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telegrams made one thing clear- Mr. McLean wished to avoid being questioned in detail about his "loan" to Mr. Fall. There was also a curious phrase in one of the telegrams suggesting that the installation of the private wire to Palm Beach would afford "easy access to the White House." There was evidence that a telegraph operator at the White House had been employed after hours to operate the Washington end of the McLean wire...
...Dirk, is born. Then Selina realizes the full falsity, as it seems to her, of her father's words. Well, one thing is certain. She will save Dirk from the same sort of life...
...first thing, it seems to me for the Church to do is to live up to its professions. If the ministers were preaching the same sort of gospel and living the same kind of ife today that the great founder of the Christian Church did 2,000 years ago, there wouldn't be standing room left in any of your churches...
...regarding offenders against the laws of the land as social invalids is not absolutely new; but Mr. George appears so far to be the only idealist in his line who has had the necessary common sense and experience to reduce his theory to a practicable form. And the convincing thing about it is that where it has been tried, it works...
...requiring originality and clear thinking, rather than mere congeries of remembered facts serve the same purpose as the "intelligence tests," and serve it more faithfully for individual cases. And the results of such examinations indicate the capacity of the candidate at the time which after all, is the important thing rather than his capacity in the first form or at any other more or less remote period. In any case, the Committee on Admissions will use its own judgment in the end, and the multiplication of tests and evidence, especially if every test must be discounted to correct...