Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME. ... In the past if anyone ever said to me in defense of an argument that they read it in TIME that settled the argument for me. However I must admit that in this last year at various times I have been surprised at articles that made me wonder if the good old TIME was operating in its usual unbiased manner. I received this week's magazine today, and I am completely disillusioned. I will not go into the details of the sneering article that appeared in it concerning Rev. Charles Coughlin. I will not attempt to defend...
...Dean also branded the opposition of the National Student League to the foundry strike tactics as "uninformed and ignorant." I wonder how uninformed and ignorant it was. I wonder whether college men, sincerely and dispassionately dedicated to the study of the social problems of our time, are not better informed than the stick wielders of the Connecticut constabulary. The question is not one of information, in the sense that a scientific dispute would require, for a strike is not a scientific dispute. It is a symptom of a very real and a very serious disease, which students, before anyone else...
...late years, a considerable body of opinion has maintained that the prisoner ought to be cared for as a person merely maladjusted. And ideally that may be so, especially in the case of the petty criminal and the extremely youthful one. But a reasonable man is often led to wonder why a man who has made himself repeatedly dangerous to society should be treated with such consideration. Does painless penalism pay as large returns as the idealists would like us to believe? Anyone reading in the newspapers of football games in which notorious gangsters and murderers play of sunny autumn...
...treated, not as a sign of the times, but as an individual eruption unrelated to the larger questions of the forum. Why is Long in Louisiana less of a political phenomenon than Mussolini in Italy? Italy is larger than Louisiana. But if a Long arose in Switzerland, I wonder how long we would wait before the cry of Fascism went up among...
Brisk Bob Hutchins did not leave his brilliant position as right-hand of Yale's President James Rowland Angell* and go to Chicago just to be feted as a boy wonder. He went to lead the way out of that mediocrity which critics have found to be the chief characteristic of U. S. "higher education." His reforms were radical. But they had barely begun when Depression came to smite down the income of all universities...