Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...implies a uniform lack of originality. At its worst, it means the subservience of the individual to mass taste. The situation is analogous to the stampede of a herd of rattle-brained cattle. The difficulty arises in that the taste is questionable if not distinctly bad. This in turn results from a self-conscious disregard of any authoritative standard. The collegiate person cares little for the opinion or feelings of others. In the last analysis collegiatism is the result of a lack of maturity and intelligence, and it is because of this that it is a reflection upon any student...
...Legend tells that hot, sweating Plowboy Young was so impressed one summer day by the cool nonchalance of attorneys arguing in the county court house that he instantly resolved to turn from clods and dirt...
...ALEXANDER, KING OF THE SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES, FEEL IT MY DUTY AS A SON OF THIS LAND TO TURN TO YOU, ITS PEOPLE, AND FRANKLY AND TRUTHFULLY TELL YOU WHAT IN THIS MOMENT MY CONSCIENCE AND LOVE OF THE FATHERLAND COMPEL...
This is all that any Congressman needs to know about the mathematics of apportionment in order to protect himself and his state against any injustice in the matter of representation. There is a short-cut process of computation used by the experts in the Bureau of the Census to turn out, in two or three hours, a correct apportionment of any number of representatives on the basis of any given populations of the states; but this is a matter of technical detail. The result is the important thing, and the result can always be checked up, in case...
...turn out, moreover, that abnormal psychology will contribute to the cultural life of the university in yet another way. It may be the key to the cerebral lock of some individuals whose intellectual potentialities can be opened by no other instrument. It is a matter of common observation that, although there are some students who come to college with an enlightened zest for intellectual pursuits and others who will be forever incapable of such experiences, there are many, not without potentialities, who go through the university unscorched by the cultural torch...