Word: mavericks
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...Maverick Justice. Thenceforward he was to look from one window of the law after the other, finally arriving in 1902 at the high, broad casement of the U.S. Supreme Court. Sixty-one, he counted on about ten more years of active service. Twenty-nine years later he was still on the bench...
...Uncertainty. The quotations from these early-American rugged optimists make the broad plains of later American thought look barren. The Beards in the part of the book devoted to the 19th Century choose quotations to illustrate the various facets of American civilization, including the works of many an intellectual maverick, from Frederick Turner's theory of the frontier to Admiral Mahan's theories of the influence of sea power. Mahan's faith in a British and American crusade committing the U.S. to a "world-spanning imperialist mission in the name of Christ and civilization" is posed against...
John Andrew Rice is a maverick among U.S. educators. By his own account, only one man ever understood him-old Philosopher John Dewey. A stormy petrel wherever he taught, Dr. Rice quarreled with the University of Nebraska, was kicked out of Rollins College (TIME, June 19, 1933), two years ago abruptly severed relations with his own dream college, North Carolina's Black Mountain. Now the professor is back in the news with a Harper prize book, I Came Out of the 18th Century ($3). His brooding, mordant autobiography reveals him as a brilliant critic of teaching and an acid...
OPRD was eleven months overdue. As far back as last April Nelson appointed a reconnoitering committee, headed by bombastic, nonscientific Maury Maverick, ex-Congressman, ex-mayor of San Antonio, to make recommendations for a bureau of production research. Maverick did his work quietly for once. Yet the result was a politico-scientific rumpus which brought to a head the issue: should WPB's research problems be assigned mainly to big, well-heeled research plants or to small, specialized laboratories? For a solution, much depended on the character of the man appointed to head OPRD. WPBoss Nelson has neatly avoided...
Married. Virginia Middleton French, sister of Mrs. John Jacob Astor; and William Force Dick, son of the late Madeleine Force Astor Dick; in Manhattan. The bride's father is Francis Ormond French, blue-blood maverick who worked in 1923 as a cab driver, applied...