Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harbor by Pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh was canceled because of bad weather. In clothes grey as the encircling fog. Minister Grandi & party were taken off the S. S. Conte Grande at Quarantine in a tug, hustled over to a Pennsylvania R. R. pier in Jersey City to a special train. Everywhere were armed guards, special agents, railroad detectives to suppress any hostility. None occurred...
Surely the increased efficiency and sense of individual responsibility on the part of most undergraduates which these five weeks of self-determination would bring in their train more than compensates for its inevitable abuse by the few, who in any case will be found out in the final reckoning of examinations...
...with other heads of families, inwardly shudder at this picture with its insidious propaganda of love and beauty. How can we train our children to become racketeers if their imaginations are formed daily by such examples? Shame on TIME and book publishers who brazenly adopt such pornographic circulation methods...
...Spaniards of the Armada called the English sailors "pagans" because they depended upon efficiency instead of prayers, but efficiency won the fight. An American general exhorting his troops said, "trust in God but keep your powder dry. . . ." Why train children to kid themselves...
...Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig- and Princeton's alumni were happy. But then Princeton began taking itself seriously as an intellectual centre, a place to train the mind. Its curriculum and entrance requirements were stiffened. Learning was made more real. A new seriousness, almost philosophical, came over the undergraduates-and Princeton began los- ing football games. The alumni were happy no longer...