Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maurice Goldblatt is a brash, unpolished little man who dedicated himself at an early age to a relentless pursuit of wealth. He made a pile. In the process, he became one of the ranking merchant princes of Chicago's famed State Street...
...noise of a nearby plane engine), the ear begins to feel uncomfortable; at 130 decibels, it tickles; at 140 decibels (near a powerful air-raid siren), it hurts, and grows temporarily deaf. But even a shattering noise rarely causes complete deafness. The commonest causes of deafness (besides old age) are 1) inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media), usually due to a head cold; and 2) a bony growth in the middle ear (otosclerosis), a hereditary disorder that usually attacks in childhood...
...Every day I am less sufficient, and at my age it's time to quit...
These Britons write about the war-perhaps with too much conventionality and decorjum, but at least they don't flee, like so many American fictioneers, from the major experience of the age. And while not so witty or brash or technically, ambidextrous as some of the American advance guardists, the British don't trifle with literary fads; they are in too deep a mess to be able to fool with that sort of thing, and they know...
...Sproul Harvard is "an extraordinary institution because in spite of its great age and prestige it still has young ideas. If Harvard were stuck in a rut it would be a terrible thing for American education. "He continually senses the" enormous stimulation which comes from having a liberal, progressive institution in a position of respect such as yours...