Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...homogeneous race, familiar with a common language, is obviously needed to attack problems concerning the public welfare. The process of assimilation will be delayed as long as the use of English among the children is not made universal. Rightly enough, the Supreme Court has decided that freedom of language is a corollary to freedom of speech: the proper line of attack is not to forbid other tongues, but to encourage English as the first essential...
...There is too much "Tom Brown at Oxford" and too much of the "Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green" in his composition. The result is that the student leaves college encased in a coating of social silica that has to be cracked off by contact with the world, and the process is often painful. He is not treated seriously during his college years because he does not treat himself seriously as a man should who enjoys his opportunities. True, too many young men are sent to college not enough...
...Reichsbank. If Germany should have to pay that out, the paper mark would indeed become worthless, like a Russian ruble. If this gold backing is kept in the bank, the mark will not depreciate much more, but it may never come up to normal again. Such a process may even require centuries...
...ordinary election is that the electors are not being appealed to, but are being bullied. The difficulties of getting the ignorant electors to register their votes are said to be almost insuperable. They are even too frightened to register themselves on the electoral rolls, believing that such a process is a trap set to catch them as conscripts for the army. It is also stated that they believe that their independence is designed "to enrich the autocracy and the bureaucracy at the expense of the toiling masses...
...everyone has treated the creatures with so little consideration. Even the Pied Piper of Hamlin took the trouble to produce a tune which would appeal to rats. In France and Switzerland animals were granted due process of law and one famous lawyer is know to have defended rats in court at Autun. The interest of some men takes the form a animal study. An English enthusiast reports the appearance of a plague of blind moles, a reaction, he thinks, of the war and the disappearance of the Hanoverian rat, and unwelcome attache to the House of Hanover...