Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motiveless creature through the morasses or else fire him with a zeal which will send him off on the trail of self-education. Men like Henry Adams scoffed at the idea of self-education in the nineteenth century. No wonder that so many students in this complex age turn back in distress at the magnitude of the task set before them. To many experience alone means education. To these outside activities afford this experience...
There is the British Hoover, introduced to the United States by Senator Jim Reed. This Hoover is supposed to be more loyal to King George than to the spirit of America. There is Hoover, the radical--the determined engineer, if you would remember, who would turn industry upside down. It has now been noted that Hoover has placed no radical plans for the reorganization of industry before Congress; that he is about as resolute and as enthusiastic a defender of the American capitalist scene; and that he aims to coax rather than to compel the business men with whom...
...Courtney '29, Brooks Otis '29, A. F. Reel '28, D. E. Scoll '28, and R. C. Weaver '29. L. T. Grimm '29, Jacques Herling '28, A. D. Howlett Jr. ocC.; Saul Rosenzweig '29, and S. G. Silverman '30 will also work on the case. Every man retained must turn over to his coach before tomorrow afternoon a brief containing an outline of three speeches arguing whichever side of the case he plans to uphold...
That is the third unexpected turn in the career of Frank O. Lowden--the turn that has made a man of immense wealth and strong business ties the captain of a farm revolt and a herectic in Wall Street...
What will happen next, and whether the road will take another unexpected turn, no two political experts quite agree. Lowden's candidacy has been approved by important Republican organizations in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. In addition to this, the managers of the various Lowden-for-President clubs claim that their candidate will have the delegates of Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wisconsin. This would give him a bloc of about three hundred delegates in the convention. The estimate is optimistic but not impossible. For, as Mark Sullivan has pointed out, the present disposition of Lowden...