Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"The professor shall," says Dr. Oliver, "be a regularly educated physician of marked ability and industry and of a temperament likely to enable him to enlist readily the confidence of young men. I desire that the professor shall, by advice and by personal interest, encourage especially physical exercises and sports...
"We are met to do honor to a great hero of the great war, whose victories are not of a military but of a saintly order; by profession an ecclesiastic, by temperament a scholar, by force of circumstances and of his own character a statesman. Early attracted by the scholastic...
"It was as a poet, however, that he first won his place in our literature, and it is by means of certain passages in the Bigelow Papers and the Commemoration Ode that he has most moved his country-men. His later lyrics are more subtle, weighted with thought, tinged with...
The luxuries of life are relative to the character and station of people, to the location and temperament of nations, and to the advancement of civilization. To the poor an automobile is a luxury; to the business man or statesman it is a necessity. Fur coats are indispensable in Norway...
"I with many other officers soon left the regiment for instructions in the ways and means of playing the game. And we've been getting it for the past couple of months in a manner that makes one itch for the actual hunting grounds. Sir, I admire, sympathize with, and...