Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remain one vestige of the archaic male predominance, for the vulgar advantage of physical strength still cannot be argued away even by the eloquence of Lucy Stone. But no more concessions. The immobile circumstances of fate must yield to feminine efficiency and cunning. In this age of uncertainty, the well insured man is wisely given preferment in the stead of the healthy athlete. After all, the Akron girl knows a good wife must be a good provider...
Undergraduate opinion, tinged with Congressional maturity should form a conglomerate whole whose significance the national broadcasting chains cannot well afford to overlook. The only sad thing about the affair is the lukewarm attitude of the press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...
...looks as though the well made narrative novel is breaking up," said Thornton Wilder in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Mr. Wilder lectured last night at the Copley Plaza...
...almost the only, great exception continues to be the Rockefeller Foundation, which, through its many ramifications, encourages the most varied forms of culture without rousing any lay opposition to its work as unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while not announced with the explosive force that accompanied the earlier huge gift, are along similar lines of a practical value that only the most hardened Philistine would deny...
...since the modern study of the humanities is really in the scientific manner. The archaeologist, the philologist, the historian must be quite as definitely and concretely trained in his own work as the student of chemical research is in his, and, what is more important, must be nearly as well equipped financially. The possibilities of the cloister as the best milieu for academic life were exhausted some centuries ago; the modern man of letters must be actruly modern man, and if for no other reason than that of keeping in communication with the progress of men similarly engaged...