Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bridge and other games" could not be a trained scholar. One statement is evidently true: "R. F. Foster is not a theologian." The study of bis face indicates what Plato would call a "keen and narrow intelligence," which was also true of Mephistopheles. While the crass and unbaked author may not have the "slightest desire to go to heaven" nor fear of hell, there is no danger of his going to either place, but one thing is as certain as the law of gravitation, and that is, that he will "reap what he has sown" in an effort to poison...
...unknown author of the original newspaper article was evidently staging an entirely imaginative expose of the "bureaucratic conduct of affairs in the War Department." He should know that combat infantry organizations, in which the Secretary of War and his immediate subordinates served, are not the best breeding places for bureaucratic methods of any kind...
Election. The Association Council, acting for the membership of some 15,000, elected as the Association's President for 1927, Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, author, botanist and horticulturist, onetime (1903-13) Dean of the College of Agriculture, Cornell University...
...raison d'étre of the book is the author, for R. F. Foster is a unique character. Almost what Hoyle* was to the 18th century, Mr. Foster is to the 20th (particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study...
...Harvey Gushing of Harvard (famed author of The Life of Sir William Osier) announced his discovery that the pituitary gland (at base of brain) is regulator of the body's water supply; when the gland's functioning was suspended, all control was lost over liquid secretions...