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...Whereas more than 16 years have intervened before the American people have turned their eyes back to the lofty ideals of human uplift and new freedom as propounded by Woodrow Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Historic Saturday | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...wear than usual. Students have a disturbing way of accepting editorials as surly Monday morning expressions of Saturday night gaiety, of reading them and of going on their way unmoved. If only they could see into the hearts of the editors they should see there the genuine desire to uplift youth and help it traverse as painlessly as possible, the rocky path of adolescence. The editors plead and beg on bended knee for a little more seemliness in campus dress, and the campus goes on oblivious to all criticism, leaving them to listen to the hollow trumpeting of the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/10/1932 | See Source »

...years, than in New York where he was an affluent realtor. He established Harmon-on-Hudson, the Manhattan suburb where outbound New York Central trains exchange electric for steam locomotives. He is a brother of the late William Elmer Harmon who established the famed Harmon Foundation for social uplift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Balloon Clan | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...Nacimiento uplift is a great monclinal fold, which shows a large variety of beds, of almost all ages. Further east, in the Jemez mountains, there are some of the most spectacular volcanic phenomena of the western part of the United States. Six days a week will be devoted to mapping and to studies of land-forms in this part of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE PROGRAM FOR GEOLOGY SUMMER GROUP | 3/3/1931 | See Source »

...handle them, seldom gave them a thought. When the U. S. adopted Prohibition, he stopped using alcohol. He was not particularly glad to do so.* But he was going into public life, wanted a clear record, and was ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would make for social uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp swing of public sentiment away from the present law challenges his stubborn nature, for he holds mass thought in low esteem. Even his political ambition is part of this attitude, his Quaker conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Open Mind | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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