Democracy in Progress: An American Testament in Four Centuries of Literature, Part 2Thomas Matthews Pearce University of New Mexico Press, 1943 - 368 pages |
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... standards in America , Babbit cites a union ruling that would restrict a bricklayer to putting five hundred bricks in a wall when he could put two thousand there . But here his own logic seems to trip him . If the standard of the union ...
... standards in America , Babbit cites a union ruling that would restrict a bricklayer to putting five hundred bricks in a wall when he could put two thousand there . But here his own logic seems to trip him . If the standard of the union ...
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... standards . Furthermore , America suffers not only from a lack of standards , but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards . As an example of the inversion of standards we may take the bricklayer who , being ...
... standards . Furthermore , America suffers not only from a lack of standards , but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards . As an example of the inversion of standards we may take the bricklayer who , being ...
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... standards as something specifically American . " America , says the Saturday Review , " is the country of unbalanced minds , of provincial policies and of hysterical Utopias . " The deference for standards has , however , been ...
... standards as something specifically American . " America , says the Saturday Review , " is the country of unbalanced minds , of provincial policies and of hysterical Utopias . " The deference for standards has , however , been ...
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