Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five years ago Herbert George Wells was a youngster of 42. His name stood for exuberant modernity, trailblazing science and a freely roving intelligence always starting up some new species of Utopian hare. But most of all it stood for exciting tales-plausible narrations of improbable happenings. Last week readers who had encountered Author Wells only as a compiler of outlines-of-knowledge or a pamphleteering old World Conspirator, had a good chance to make his acquaintance as a young man. And every faithful and once-faithful Wellsian was glad that these early tales (The Time Machine, The Island...
...just this respect that the weakness of the Western powers is most evident where China is concerned. That Japan will submit tamely to the closing or restriction of her markets in the British Empire is a Utopian dream. Retaliation will occur which may well take the form of an intensified effort to cultivate Chine still more assiduously than in the past as Japan's special province for her overflow of goods. The existence of Japan, like England, depends absolutely on the maintenance of here expert market; but whereas England has the Empire in which to trade advantageously, Japan's markets...
Edward Weeks of The Atlantic Monthly fortnight ago finished compiling for the Institute of Arts & Sciences a list of the books U. S. readers have liked best in the last 60 years. Easy winner, with no second, is Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon's In His Steps, a Utopian fantasy of what the world might be like if people lived literally according to Christ's teachings (TIME, Oct. 9). Published in 1899, it has sold 8,000,000* copies, four times as many as its nearest competitor. Because of a flaw in the copyright, Author Sheldon received no royalties...
...doing. Last year the net deficit to the University on the account of the Houses was something over $53,000; next year, it will be somewhat larger because of the reduction in rents. In view of this, a partial solution to the problem is obvious, if a trifle Utopian: those who can afford more than the maximum set down on their applications should signify that capability. The other side of the question, namely, that presented by the rooms in the upper price brackets, a number of which never have been filled, and are not filled now, is not so evident...
...courses in which the lectures fulfill a more worthy purchase. In such courses the lecturer, realizing that most of the material of the course is adequately presented in easily obtainable texts, devotes his remarks to the elucidation of more obscure facts and commentary upon debatable points. A Utopian course is, however, a rarity. English 52, as an example, stands out in pleasant contrast to the majority of courses in that department. The lectures, held only twice each week, are alleged to be of little importance in the mere answering of examination questions, but of ineffable value in providing the student...