Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote he last week: "The universities in this country should be the apex of a pyramid based on our highly developed school system. A path to the top should be open to all of exceptional talent. . . . To accomplish its mission Harvard must be a truly national university. . . . We should be able to say that any man with remarkable talents may obtain his education at Harvard whether he be rich or penniless, whether he come from Boston or San Francisco...
...Francisco. This is an ideal toward which we must work; today our fellowship and scholarship funds are woefully inadequate. In my opinion we should have a large number of fellowships paying as much as twelve hundred dollars. The universities in this country should be the apex of a pyramid based on our highly developed school system. A path to the top should be open to all of exceptional talent. The privately endowed institutions must keep the way clear for the gifted youth with limited means...
...down to the soles of one's feet, which lets it be known that this is the drink of rugged individualism. There is something of the mountains of its birth in this Leadville Moon; those mountains are heavy, yet aspiring; they fall away in rugged, breath-taking scarps, and pyramid to jagged causeways of rock far above the clouds, descending again over soft alpine meadows and pastoral beauties; all this and more is to be found in Leadville Moon. It does not act like other drinks; it bowls one over, then replants; it is in no sense a cheap, shoddy...
...drivers, taximen, public service workers, presumably inspired by their employers, had scarcely got it into momentum before Acting Governor Horton stepped in with a proclamation. The price of gasoline was 25?; he reduced it to 20? ordered the leading companies-Shell, Texaco, West India (Standard of New Jersey subsidiary), Pyramid-to keep it at that price until gasoline costs could be investigated. The Commissioner of Labor, a Puerto Rican, magnanimously suggested that if the companies starved on a 20? price, the Legislature should reimburse them for their loss...
...Degas, Renoir, Cezanne. He went to Spain to bend the knee to Velazquez, returned a blazing disciple of El Greco. Though he is a frequent contributor to International Studio and Cahier d'Art, few of his more than 40 books have been translated. Some of them: Spanish Journey, Pyramid and Temple, Degas, Cezanne, Dostoevsky...