Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory that U. S. youth is going Over the Hill to the Poorhouse is concerned, tobacco men feel that the woman smoker has become an accepted element in the contemporary U. S. scene, and that abstinence from sweets is dictated not by the Lucky campaign but by present fashion...
...money, but the son thought Henry VII had been piddling. He would speed up the small but rich-going concern, put himself and England on the map. He always thought of himself first and said that all he did was for the glory of God. That was the fashion. Solidly behind him stood all England?soldiers, churchmen, ministers, tradesmen...
...always been his endeavor to make of himself, so far as possible, a cultured individual, rather than a more or less perfect example of the plumber's art, which should, when the right tap is turned and the right chain pulled react in the customary and appropriate fashion. Of course, that will not provide him with a sheepskin, and he shall probably have to content himself for some time with goat hide...
...Giants are a nearer possibility. To create them it is merely necessary to feed babies the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, as Harvard's bulldog was fed. Perhaps some experimenter has already, secretly, toyed with a human in such fashion. But Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution's Animal Experiment Station at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., merely told the philosophers at Philadelphia that made-to-order giants are now feasible...
...while." But owing to the many complications arising in our present system, it is not until a man gets to college that anything like this happens, and how often it is then too late. Admittedly the problem of secondary education in America is a hard one. The "tyranny of fashion" which President Lowell points to as so easy under a democracy, is one of these difficulties. The great numbers and the differing abilities of those involved increases the trouble. No wonder that untried theory and visionary experiment find wider acceptance among the secondary schools than in the colleges. The teachers...