Word: unthought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saddened, U. S. citizens again scanned the provisions of the Ontario liquor law. They found that although "regular" permits to purchase liquor required 30 days' Ontario residence, there were also "tourist" permits which specified no residence requirement. It appeared that Mr. Hanna was making a distinction, hitherto unthought of, between "tourists" and "excursion-ists." Just how long an excursion into Canada would have to last to constitute a tour, just when an excursionist, barred from purchasing liquor became a tourist, to whom alcoholic beverages would be freely dispensed, remained for the future to decide...
...colleges subjects that are far better learned in the school of experience." While students for the ministry, medicine, law, and the teaching profession have long found preparation at college, the modern university -- the state university in particular -- has added to its other activities a score of quasi-technical fields unthought of a century ago. The sciences, business, engineering, and agriculture, to cite a few examples, have now been accorded a place in academic life; the industries are drawing upon the university for laboratory-research men, for construction experts, and business managers. More and more emphasis is being placed upon work...