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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Convention with half of the delegates instructed. Claims of greater numbers must be taken with a grain of salt. But in the Democratic Convention, with its two-thirds requirement, one third? 365 delegates?can impose a veto on the aspirations of any candidate. McAdoo is likely to control this type of veto against the Smith-Underwood group. The Smith-Underwood group is not unlikely to have a similar stop on McAdoo. The logic of the situation calls loudly for a dark horse, especially since most of the delegates have second choices...
...moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic and most plaintive of all the war songs sung on both sides was Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground. That song was written by Walter Kittridge of the Second New Hampshire Infantry. He was returning to the old camp along the marshes...
...salary, a good man normally secures an assistant professorship in the institution where he began teaching, or elsewhere, carrying a salary somewhere between $2000 and $3000. From this point on rapidity of advance varies greatly, depending chiefly on the individual's ability and consecration to his work, on the type of institution in which he lands his job, and on the state of supply and demand in his particular subject of study. Of these points the first and third are obvious. Of the second much might be said. Briefly, appointments to assistant-professorships, associate-professorships, and professorships are slower...
...fair haired, thin lipped natives. Science will be little the wiser, and the sum total of human knowledge will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into the unknown than any other living being has yet been. It is rash, reckless, and usually productive of little immediate good; but had it not been a moving force since the beginning of history, Vespucci had been an obscure Portuguese sailor, and the western prairies...
Besides, in the present instance, the experiment was obviously not conducted with the proper attention to detail. The prisoner was a man of mature years, and was doubtless confirmed in crime; a long record of misdeeds should have suggested to the meanest intelligence that he was not the ideal type for a test case. Also, being familiar with police methods, he may have surmised that he was being invited into a trap; and acting on the theory that he was being given rope with which to hang himself, he determined no doubt that his moral demise should at least...