Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word. Memory is a mental function, and it is more or less inevitable that the student with the best memory is going to show the best answers to such a test. The young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That is undoubtedly a brain test Whether it is the ideal test of brain power is another matter...
...five there is no light in darkness except the glow of gold indemnity. Their malady is incurable. Eleven years ago, merry giggling girls of 16, 17, 18, they got jobs to help out at home, learned to paint the luminous numerals on watch faces. Quinta, Albina, and Amelia Maggia thought themselves lucky to find work in the same plant. Amelia is dead-her body was exhumed to prove that the death diagnosis was wrong but her dead bones are still luminous with the radium she swallowed. Quinta and Albina left their jobs after two years for the romance of marriage...
...given to hospitals and laboratories for study, that this great tragedy might add its contribution to scientific knowledge. Newspapers took these five dying women to their ample bosoms. Heartbreaking were the tales of their torture. Publicity hastened the case to trial through the lagging courts. Some found doctors who thought the women might not die. No one found a doctor who thought they might be completely cured. Said Katherine Schaub: "Do you think getting married will help me? . . . I don't buy anything. . . . I haven't any money. . . . I'm-worried. . . . When...
...week acted on their long suspicion that their 6-year-old broadcasting station, WOO, one of the oldest in the country, was "not helping the store in general or in an advertising way." "Investigation made by special inquiry among radio listeners during the past two years" had confirmed the thought. So last week store officials declared that...
...frequent publishing ruse of selling a dull re-hash on the strength of the original success. Nothing of the sort is true in this case, partly because of Burton Hendrick's studied sense of the dramatic, mostly because of the essential fullness of Page's life before he ever thought of ambassadorship. From cub-reporter in St. Joseph, Mo., he rose rapidly to New York newspaperdom, managed and edited the Forum, and later The Atlantic Monthly?"report-ing and interpreting American civilization." In 1900, as co-founder of Doubleday, Page & Co., he entered into what he was content to consider...