Word: instinctiveness
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...Peers' College. There he dovetailed into a group of nationalistic-minded students who are now Japan's bright young leaders in the fighting services and Foreign Office, many holding posts today that were reserved for mossbacks before Japanese expansion entered its latest, most virile phase. Almost by instinct, Carp Saito chose to do most of his career swimming in the U. S. On entering foreign service he was attached to the Washington Embassy from 1911 to 1917, served as Consul in Seattle (1921-23), Consul General in New York (1923-28), Charge d'Affaires in Washington...
Titian made no pretense at the universal genius of such men as Michael Angelo or Leonardo da Vinci. He lacked entirely the religious instinct of a Giotto or El Greco. He worshipped fine food, rich brocades and women's bodies, alternated between harlots, duchesses and his daughter Lavinia for his models. Still painting at the age of 90. his trembling hands and failing eyes produced the technique that led to French Impressionism. The bargaining instinct never left him. Wanting to be buried in the swank Church of the Frari, he offered to swap the monks a new Pieta...
...Gans. In 1917 he was stalling through a fixed fight with Fred Fulton when Fulton punched his left eye so hard it had to be taken out. Soon cataracts formed over the right eye. Unable to see more than two feet ahead, Sam Langford fought his way by instinct to the Heavyweight Championship of Mexico...
...intends that the Misses Dionne shall not be commercialized by the money grubbing vaudeville entrepreneurs of New York and Chicago. It is a direct national slap at the great acquisitive qualities which have maintained the Yankee at the top of the financial heap, and an insult to that maternal instinct which flames inherent in the breasts of all true Americans...
There is one way out of the difficulty. If the athletic accomplishments of each House are faithfully recorded on a permanent trophy in each sport, individual awards can be done away with. The natural instinct for competion, the desire to gain recognition for the House should be more potent inducements to participation in the inter-House program than the hope of receiving an individual medal. Such trinkets as the jewelers of the Square offer each fall to catch the eye of the callow Freshman have no firmly established place in the life of the Harvard man. They are baubles born...