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Word: reminder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume . . . Still another telescoping in Edward McCurdy's spendid edition of "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci", very good to have or give . . . Professor John Livingston Lowes' classic of literary research. "The Read to Xangdn," has now been reprinted. May it long serve to remind us that literary scholarship can itself produce the finest of literature

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Likely reason for the ban on Look: it reprinted phony atrocity pictures of World War I to remind people how war spirit was whipped up. This might come under the head of reports "likely to prejudice the recruiting, training, discipline or administration . . . of His Majesty's forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canadian Secrecy | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...several Congressmen. Steve Early, White House secretary, came out of the President's study next day and remarked to reporters with studied severity: "It would have been kind and polite of the speaker to have consulted the victim before he spoke." This satisfied nobody, but it served to remind a U. S. absorbed by the War that a Presidential election was only 377 days away, and that the third term was an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Better Natured | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...that such a society is so easy of attainment. Mr. Conant must be over-impressed with the importance of his profession if he believes that education is a force powerful enough to go far in annihilating caste barriers. It seems necessary--even if it is trite--to remind him that equality of ability and equality of training do not mean equality of opportunity. Economic power still continues to be a decisive factor in the determination of position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAVE NEW WORLD | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

Harvard's James Bryant Conant: "Education as usual should be our slogan. If this seems too tame a slogan for these exciting days, let me remind you . . . that this nation now emerges from chaos as the significant home of the arts, of literature, of scholarship, of science. ... I ... make certain assumptions about the next ten years . . . [that] we are not facing the end of civilization . . . that the devastation of the European war will place a unique burden upon the citizens of this nation to carry forward the culture of our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unique Burden | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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