Word: temperments
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...argument of incompatibility, which has weighed heavily in previous instances, is nothing in this case, for Dean Pound is thoroughly in accord with the temper of the administration. His work has received strong support. He has deserved well, and, for once, has not been slighted. But much remains to be done; the Law School is not halfway in its career, and it would be a serious misfortune for the driver to let drop the reins. While the presidency of a university is not a chair to be spurned lightly, the work which the dean has so effectively carried...
...awkward, austere, magical name whose connotation is an unquotable sum and an unknown personality. Yet, out of such flying hints, has grown the outline of a character, blurred at first, like a face vaguely limned in charcoal scratches, clarified little by little with inkier facts, until the quality and temper of the man have come to stand out distinct, significant...
These various tendencies blend together and produce a peculiar inconsistency of temper which both invites and repels European missionaries, whether political or religious. The low caste Hindu, now for the first time awake to his own worth, finds in Christianity a promise of social equality and a religious solace denied him by Hinduism. From this point of view the moment seems opportune for the spread of Christianity. But this is only half the story. The forces of nationalism, reinforced by the tide of reaction against European culture which has swept over the Orient since the World War warn the Westerner...
...among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...
...that grim plague which, since the untoward demise of a certain Mexican woman three weeks ago, has caused a series of deaths so sinister and baffling in the poor quarter of Los Angeles : "black pneumonia." Having thus damned their enemy with a definition, California physicians, health authorities, sharpened the temper of their vigilance. The street-ends of the infected district were barricaded with ropes, guards were posted, armed with short shotguns, to enforce the quarantine. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appropriated $25,000 to combat the epidemic, appointed a special committee of experts to organize the measures...