Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must take action," the Vagabond reflected, as he sank deep in his comfortable armchair and watched the blazing logs kindled in his fireplace. "We must take action." How often he had sat in that chair, watching the fire and hearing a soothing voice that urged him thus! Always the fire seemed to catch the spirit of the voice, and respond to its glowing tones with ever more brilliance. Like the voice, it would subside and become quiet for a time; and then, once again, it would burst forth, ever agitated, glowing, ardent...
These seven Counselors will hold, apparently, one year appointments and are to perform no other teaching function than that of armchair pedagogues who sit and wait for pupils to ferret them out. From the lively group of Yardlings already on the trail of Americana under the direction of the Freshman pathfinder, and from the number who responded in one House to the experiment of an English tutor, there is certainly no lack of enthusiasm, which situation graces with practicality the scheme of House Counselors. Nevertheless, it seems plausible that the seven can be of greater service to the Plan...
...miles north of Teruel which this week swept forward at least 18 miles. In the ominous calm which preceded this fresh blast in Spain's storm, Britain's lanky No. 1 commentator on military affairs, famed Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, leaned back in a London armchair last week, pondered, then wrote his professional opinion-thoughtful if iffy-on the next six months of Spain's civil...
...book is not, however, the much abused type of literary reminiscences which flood the bookstores with new versions every week. His pattern characterization which persist throughout increase its merit. He does not sit in an armchair with his won bibliography in front of him, going over each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...
...Manhattan apartment Thorndike kept his hens and four monkeys. He invented for his experiments the maze and puzzle box, now standard equipment for psychological work. At 24 Thorndike published his first work, Animal Intelligence. Armchair psychologists, who had not his patience for the laborious pursuit of facts, immediately denounced his conclusions. To them the youngster replied: "What is important is concrete information about particular facts...