Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much with the nationalism of men of action that M. Benda is concerned in his present work as with the nationalism of the intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment from material objects has been expected from earliest times, have become violent partisans of this or that nationality and of this or that national culture. Therein lies what M. Benda terms the Treason of the Intellectuals. That many of these intellectuals have lost their broader out-look in a militant patriotism is undeniable; that this should be regarded...
...British law, I was British. According to American law, I was American. Lawyers differ even now as to which nationality I belong to technically. I travel under a British passport and always mean the Americans when I say "we"-not such a wholly illogical position for one of the earliest members of the English Speaking Union...
...earliest description of the disease was given by British Naval Surgeon John Atkins on his return from West Africa in 1734. He wrote: "The Sleepy Distemper (common among the Negroes) gives no other previous Notice, than a want of Appetite two or three days before; their sleeps are sound, and Sense and Feeling very little; for pulling,drubbing or whipping will scarce stir up Sense and Power enough to move; and the Moment you cease beating the smart is forgot, and down they fall again into a state of Insensibility, drivling constantly from the Mouth as if in deep salivation...
...week of jingles, Poet MacLeish remembers the poet's lay, to keep it lyric. The wind in the grass is still, as in his earliest writings, a spiritual phenomenon. But he has since found power in harsh words-"an oak screams in the wind . . . the wet wood smoke blinds...
Spoke for the book in lofty, compelling periods that great Anglican Lord Hugh Cecil, now esteemed the leading orator in the House of Commons, and brother of famed League of Nations Exponent Viscount Cecil of Chelmwood. At greatest length Lord Hugh traced the practice of reservation from earliest, primitive Christian times, and concluded that, as practiced by Anglicans, it retains its primitive purity unsullied by Popery...