Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preponderance of farmers becoming city men over city men becoming farmers, was 834,000. In 1926, it was 1,020,000. Last year, it dropped to 604,000. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, part of whose business it is to tabulate these transmigrations, said he believed that the new figures "reflect the improved agricultural conditions, the disillusionment of those who sought better economic conditions in cities . . . and the slight slackening of industrial employment...
More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
...Education", with a zeal so Menckenesque that it seems almost homesick away from the more familiar pages of the Mercury. Witness this description of the sad fate of the products of the present system: "Most Americans seem to have reached mental old age at the age of thirty. They reflect in stereotypes; they converse in slogans; their thinking is reiteration, and their action consequently--violence." The remedy, say these critics, lies in continuing the educational process throughout life, for "it is sheer folly to expect liberally educated children to grow into liberal adulthood in a society where anti-liberalism succeeds...
Again Headmaster McOrmond: "The modern boy still indulges, in pranks. It appears, however, that these pranks are now much less inclined to cause personal inconvenience to others, destruction of property, and to reflect the vandalistic instinct which characterized such pranks twenty-five years ago. The matter of hazing in a good school is practically non-existent...
Last week the Paris-Orleans Railroad Company sold $10,750,000 worth of 5½% external sinking fund gold bonds through a banking syndicate composed of A. Iselin & Co., Brown Brothers & Co., Halsey, Stuart & Co., Hemphill, Noyes & Co. and Wood, Gundy & Co. Few financial theorists in the U. S. reflected sentimentally that this was the railroad that carried U. S. soldiers from Bordeaux or Brest to battle. But all financial theorists did reflect deeply upon that interest rate...