Word: temperedness
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Coincident with the announcement of the Alumni Association's tribute to President Eliot on his ninetieth birthday comes another tribute, less pretentious perhaps than the gathering of thousands of Harvard graduates and prominent citizens, but more valued in the practicality and frankness of a compliment made unwittingly. One of President...
The silence had become almost oppressive. The mother came forward and with an agitated voice said: "My mother was horrified. She is of the old Russia; she cannot understand. Some neighbors thought it impertinent, wanting to seem important. This hurt my husband, and we almost gave up the idea entirely...
Wills. Indefinite postponement of his match with Homer Smith, hulking Kalamazooan (TIME, Oct. 1) was tempered for Harry Wills by an invitation to sign against Joe Beckett. If the Britisher can be coaxed across the Atlantic, Wills will have at him in early November.
But the more cheerful view of business now taken is still gravely tempered with caution. The impending German collapse, the agricultural depression and the likelihood of radical and deeply harmful legislation in Washington next winter continue to heavily overhang the markets.
M. Andre Citroen, largest automobile manufacturer in France, made a pilgrimage to the Ford plants in Detroit; his enthusiastic admiration was tempered only by a regret at the inartistic character of Mr. Ford's well-known product. " Nothing about Ford or his plant suggests a trace of the finer...