Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occupies Princeton's finest position in mathematical research. Throughout the nation Harvard, Yale and Princeton clubs combine--not to proselytize in their localities but to spread the ideal of self-education. Is it logical that these groups would permit ungentlemanly playing, derogation of scholastic standards, patronizing and supercilious behavior Could such cooperation exist if the feeling of small minorities represented the true spirit of the universities...
...conscientious objector, was the only one to foresee the fruitlessness of the war when it was declared. Dick and Madge both went out, scorning what they then deemed his cowardly behavior. When they come back, like all those who went through it, they realize the utter no tense of medals, knighthoods,--labels, as they put it. Tom returns from the "conchy" camp at Boulogne, half-starved. The Father, entrenching himself behind his knighthood, declares that he will oust the "conchy" from his home. When his two other children, disgusted with their pater's pre-war outlook, declare they will...
Bernardone, the father, permitted himself only once to display the irritation which his son's behavior had so often occasioned. As a rule he accepted Jack's madcapery with an indulgent "Tschik"; with the Signora he often delayed in his shop discussing how Jack wasted his days lounging and singing beside fountains, how he rebounded from one girl to another, above all how he spent money- wasting it, throwing it away in pursefuls. "More like some prince than our son," said the mother in despair; but the father had not even objected when Jack rode...
...withdrawal from the League (TIME, June 21) may be tempted back by a similar plum. Poland will assumedly not be forgotten, as the dependent ally of potent France. The Assembly, which convened at Geneva last week, is thus provided with three tempting prizes to grant or withhold for good behavior among the nations...
...Breslau. On the first day, 130 Catholic nobles attended, on the second day, 87, on the third, 45, on the fourth, 12. The onetime King of Saxony attended on only the first three days. At Berlin, Liberal Republican editors were vexed at what they called "the anti-Republican behavior of the German Catholic nobles toward the Chancellor of the Republic...