Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to be Undersecretary of State. Such is William Phillips' career, a career which never put him in a tight place, diplomatic or otherwise. But capable is the diplomat whose career is uncheckered. No one has ever alleged that the present Undersecretary of State is an eagle of intellect, but he has done many a job competently and quietly. Among them was the distribution of $1,000,000, willed by a Sharon, Pa. millionaire, Frank H. Buhl, to improve the lot of Belgian orphans. The fund was so well administered by an unpaid staff that it has only recently...
...duck pants. In the winter he could be seen carrying an armful of wood to heat a cold conference room. In the spring he played tennis and fished with his students, shocked bookworms when he inaugurated a carnival and skiing trips, reminded them: "You don't live on intellect alone...
...should be realized that the fighting-instinct, if well directed, gives energy for much that is good and beautiful. But the same instinct may create chaos if it breaks loose from all restraint, making use of the greatest discoveries of the human intellect...
...average Harvardman, Roscoe Pound is a detached intellect with a round, cheery face and a green eyeshade, seated in the centre of a huge horseshoe desk, periodically emitting pithy dicta. Last week the intellect emitted a dictum of unusual interest: one year hence Roscoe Pound will resign as dean of the Harvard Law School. Reported Harvard's pressagent: "Dean Pound will continue to hold the Carter Professorship of Law. He explained that he wished to devote more of his time to writing, particularly to completing a book on jurisprudence...
...triangle between Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop Houses now rests in the hands of Mr. Durant, the University's Business Manager, and the Housemasters concerned. The wonder is that a petition is necessary, that such a silly ban should ever have existed in a domain of such concentrated intellect...