Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will Form Self-Sufficient Unit...
...action of the modern world is what we call labor. The challenge of labor means not labor of any particular class but of the community laboring as a single unit. Culture and labor should be united as in ancient times when there was no difference between artists and artisans. I plead for an education within and part of the labor of the world," he concluded, "not wholly separated from it. I also plead that divorce may be done away with and that all labor for advancement...
...impossible, however, to maintain such equanimity in face of the attack on the Military Science Department. As a matter of fact, the pacifists should be thankful for the presence of the Unit, for there will be in any class a group of young men of robust instincts and patriotic tendencies who might feel inclined to pacify the pacifists to the damage of the latter if there were not a mild-mannered Col. Browning on the job as a guide toward tolerance. And besides, what business is it of the pacifists if three hundred odd students desire to acquire the gentlemanly...
...effort will be made to have Colonel W. S. Browning, head of the military unit in the University, speak before members of the Liberal Club at luncheon some day next week...
Looking at the story as a unit, I can commend the author for daring to lot description hold his action back for so long at the beginning. All through the book the very graphic word picture of life in the Long Island smart set is drawn with fascinating dexterity and every situation is handled with unusual finesse. Mr. Towne's evident delight in character, delincation and even in ordinary description tend to minimize the importance of the conventional plot--the old eternal triangle, although when he changes his scene of action to France during the war, omitting...