Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Reed is a destructive, not a constructive force in lawmaking, but he is consistent. He believes that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time a citizen has a toe ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over...
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Thus, last week, progressed what theorists and newspapers described with morbid jubilance as "the student suicide wave." The total self-destructions since New Year's readied 21. Dire views continued to be expressed on the evil influence of new philosophies, new psychology, and of high-pressure school requirements. At the University of Baltimore, 13 undergraduates were inspired to form an Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli...
...avid press dragged in the school or college affiliation of every unfortunate creature who tired of life during the week. The "wave" rolled strongly on. But not every one remained oblivious to the fact that schools and colleges were implicated very faintly if at all in a condition long evident in the U. S. Professor Herman Harrell Home of New York University ventured to say "that there are less suicides among college students than in any other class." Well might he have added that "the inquiring spirit of the youth of today," as he called it, operates quite as violently...
...almost a month since a wave of international consciousness swept over the United States and so aroused the national conscience as to force the administration to abandon an ostensibly imperialistic policy toward Nicaragua. It seemed at the time a signal victory for public sentiment and for a public acumen not blinded by Secretary Kellogg's red flag waving. It also seemed that the Nicaraguans were to be allowed to fight it out among themselves or that some non-partisan steps toward mediation would be taken...