Word: likened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press: "Please note that we have not used the word 'genius' once in our plan. We would appreciate it if you would avoid the use of this word, since it is likely to be misunderstood. "An accurate description of the new Johns Hopkins plan might liken it to the Rhodes foundation for U. S. students, with Johns Hopkins substituted for Oxford University, chemistry specified as the special subject for study, and U. S. Industry in the position of founder. From each of the 48 states, one chemistry student will be chosen annually to go to Johns Hopkins...
FLOWER PHANTOMS-Ronald Fraser-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Delicate, sensuous Judy made her lover liken her to the loveliest flowers, exotic ones with iridescent stems and golden caps rather than the sturdy blossoms of the fields. She drank in his literary phrases as the plants in her hothouse drank the warm, steamy air under glass. Until she really believed that her true relations should be with fern and tree and flower, not with her practical family and tiresome, boreal Roland. After charmingly imagined conversations with a philosophical water-lily and passionate adventures with an Oriental orchid, however, she turns back from...
...work of putting the infamous record of the last administration in its true light. It is futile to direct effort to shadowy issues. It is childish to pretend that a likeness exists between Mr. Davis and Mr. Coolidge. It is as well to compare black with white as to liken Mr. Davis, one of this country's most capable lawyers and one of the most able men ever sent as Ambassador to Great Britain, with the man whose weakness and inaction has brought untold disgrace to the national government...