Word: mind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indefiniteness of the Bolles findings brings to mind the statement made by Mr. Meikleham who was for many years a race official at New London. He said that the choice of any one type of crew man for a boat was almost entirely a matter of contemporary style, and that the best crew man did not necessarily have to confine himself to any particular build. His knowledge was based not only on his long association with crew but upon the fact that while he was a Captain of the Columbia crew he helped to nurse the sport...
...Sergeant drinks your rum, never mind...
...world's greatest artist, passed out handbills describing himself as "Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead: "Mahatma Dr. Louis M. Eilshemius, M.A. etc., Mightiest Mind and Wonder of the Worlds, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendant Eagle of Art." His paintings, on the rare occasions he could get them shown, brought horse laughs from critics and public alike...
...readers who think they are being invited to a rip-roaring wake over Communism's corpse will find that Henry Bamford Parkes, despite the title of his book, has no such jamboree in mind. Even Marxists may concede that the body of their belief, with all its nobility of purpose, its elaborate doctrine, its often tragic record in action, has rarely undergone such delicate surgery. For the argument of this book goes far deeper than any current disillusionment with a "discredited" Communism...
While the Plan's anonymous financial angels thus have reason to rejoice, mere appointments are not sufficient to insure the Plan's success. In the undergraduate mind the Plan is still associated with the notion of "study" which the Bliss examinations represented. Although these have happily been abolished in favor of short essays for the same appealing prizes, it remains for the Chairman and the counselors to "sell" Harvard on the American Civilization idea...