Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economist John T. Flynn, a close friend of Willis Ballinger and a professional viewer-with-alarm, popped up with a set of charts to show that "collapse" of the durable-goods market is due largely to monopolistic conditions. FTC Attorney PGad B. Morehouse developed the commission's belief thaft price control is the chief handmaiden of monopoly. And Princeton Professor Frank A. Fetter explained monopoly: "It is derivative of two Greek roots, 'monos,' alone, and 'polei, to sell, and it occurs in the Greek in two forms, feminine and neuter, 'monopolia and 'monopolion...
...Library's collection is chiefly noted for a very rare group of the works of John Playford, an English music publisher of the late seventeenth century. To the casual viewer, Playford's "An Introduction to the Skill of Music" may appear very striking, since it provides first-hand information of the ideas which people held about music...
...Here is a poet at work on one of the curious monuments of our times, giving it that inner meaning without which nothing is worth anything. Indeed, it is this reviewer's opinion that Mr. Parson poem ought to be exhibited along with the glass flowers themselves; that every viewer of these "mimic plants" ought to read this poem as he stares in curious fascination at them. For Mr. Parson has symbolized them, has defined them as the idle curiosity they really are, their verisimilitude to nature only proving their inadequacy as flowers...
...less strenuous adaptation, the game will cease to wag and the college and public hysteria will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss and attendant by-products of ennui...