Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This volume is written for the average man and woman. It strips the tenets of sound psychological theory to an understandable basis, expressing it in everyday terms and concrete concepts...
During winter, living in barracks. Reveille at 6 o'clock; march to breakfast at Mess Hall at 6.30 o'clock, and then march back; first class at 8 o'clock; two classes in the morning, one in the afternoon; intramural athletics for every man, everyday, in the middle of the afternoon; then drill and parade, outdoors when the weather is not too severe; supper at 6.30 o'clock; study from 7.15 until 10 o'clock, when taps sounds and lights...
...Congress and now and then make one or two strictly formal speeches on some set subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...
...there is no truth in that platform plank, there is no candor in it; it has not even got the essence of common everyday honesty and it was never intended to have...
...philosophy underlying these opinions is no pedantic metaphysics, but an essential part of everyday existence. To Dewey the world is: 1) a thinking world; 2) an evolving world of experience. Philosophy is the intelligent vision which controls experience, shaping it to desire...