Word: label
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hobgoblins minced and Giants lumbered inside a very old Philadelphia building last week. The building, a small brick one, stands on Independence Square, close to Independence Hall. A label calls it the Hall of the American Philosophical Society. A large group of learned men, philosophers in the old sense of searchers after truth in any of the sciences, including natural history, heard the tread of the Giants and Hobgoblins...
...Foregathered in solemn conclave, the packers decided to put on a national advertising campaign. They collected $200,000, gave it to advertising men who staged a national campaign hailing PINK salmon "The King of Food Fish," who also started recipe contests- each recipe to be accompanied by a label from a PINK salmon can. Sixty thousand housewives stopped feeding Pink salmon to their cats, sent in 200,000 recipes, bale on bale of labels. By July 1, the season's left-over cans were reduced to 500,000. This year packers have collected $250,000 to use in further...
...Significance. In fixing upon a label for the rung above Babbittry, Mr. Lewis evidently recognized his grave responsibility to vocabulary, for he wavered and fussed, changed and substituted, before committing himself to "Dodsworth." His difficulty is plain: Dodsworth, no simple ameba, reacts to stimulae of the shifting European scene not automatically but thoughtfully, individually. Dodsworth is a type, recognizable, familiar; but the type is susceptible to variations. Fran's type also is familiar−to those who read Henry James, and dally in cosmopolitan circles. Literati have even traced resemblances to the first Mrs. Lewis, substituted dark...
...year-old Stevenson Ward, Commerce president, who figures in the merged bank only as one of a long list of directors. Morgan influence in Guaranty-Commerce is emphasized by the appointment of Thomas William Lament as chairman of the Executive Committee. In some quarters Mr. Lament (whose Morgan label alone prevents him from being entitled foremost U. S. banker) is credited with having virtually arranged the Guaranty-Commerce merger before sailing for Europe to serve on the Reparations Committee...
...Junior divisional examination, then, sets up a false distinction for the specialist by eliminating the honors degree for the student with a broad interest in his field. More than this, it offers a convenient relief from extended general work to many who accept readily the label of "candidate for honors". What may seem, from the figures it can show, to be emancipation of the honors degrees, is really a narrowing device, which permits the passage of numbers that only cheapen the distinction degree. As a stricture on the fair application of the honors principle, the Junior divisional examination deserves...