Word: milleniums
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...them, numerous additions to a pitiful handful, young men from Harvard. Yale, and Princeton, who have very apparent ability. That ability of theirs is four parts flair for the theatre, perhaps, but it is six parts intelligence, and intelligence may be cultivated. It would mean the stage millenium if it might be given the actor, or its lack revealed to him in a school before he makes one more in the stage struck multitude...
...Olympic Games are by no means the millenium; but neither are thy free for-all brawls. And the sooner these facts are realized, and sentiment and hysterical sensationalism done away with the better they will be able to function as it was intended they should...
...millenium is at hand. Happiness is to be produced, like toothpicks, by scientific, large-scale methods. The Personnel Research Federation recently organized in New York announces that science and business are to be united in its study of "the human factor" in industry. "To weed misfits from American industry, and to make its millions of workers happier, more efficient, and more productive," is the ingenious wording of its purpose...
...from platform to platform- work, not doles. Poor people said 'this, at least, is something like; you chaps have a try.' Then, this evening we came down to the House prepared to hear and cheer all these new developments that are going to hurry up the social millenium, and Mr. Shaw described how the Government had been carrying out our scheme. . . . He lifted a rabbit out of a hat, but it was not his rabbit. The rodent which last December was the most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature that ever escaped from a lethal chamber is today...
This should advertise pacifism enormously. Yea, further, if some enterprising yellow robed apostle came in for rough handling he would immediately become a real martyr, make the yellow as glorious as the cross, found a new religion, or even get himself worshipped during the coming millenium. If not, at least such a uniform would serve very speedily to weed out the mock martyrs from the genuine 14 karat messiahs. ELISHA K. KANE...