Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class of biographers depending for their fame and popularity more on their ability to write entertainingly than on their qualifications, if any, as scholars and historians. Their main purpose has been to entertain, and since the general public is more interested in people that are human, perhaps even a bit naughty, this new school of semi-historical writers has led to the exposing of one shibboleth aften another, the rendering of innumerable veils, the puncturing of bubbles, and the over-turning of practically all the figures which tradition, sentiment, patriotism, and whatnot, had caused to be raised on pedestals...
...taken place in the region of Mt. Everest in southern Tibet. Going back to the discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess Mother of the World". In 1914 Noel made an attempt to see the mountain but his disguise failed and he was stopped by the Tibetan soldiers, over forty miles from his goal...
...schools. In both his chief concern was the cultivation of the imagination. I have in mind not only the inestimable value of his active cooperation and wise counsel to the school which, at his request, was established in Cambridge to provide opportunities for his own boys; but also a bit of personal experience in that connection which throws a significant light on his character...
...coal where were no ships. Secretary Long hurried ..back to his office, rescinded Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's orders, called Assistant Secretary Roosevelt in and explained some things to him. "After considering the matter for a few moments, Roosevelt admitted to my father he guessed he had speeded up a bit too much and they both had a good laugh over...
While his friends and backers began to wonder if their "Big Bill" might not have carried a splendid idea a bit too far, Mayor Thompson remained loudly confident. "I'm a guy," he says, "with the guts to speak right out. I've been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. I may not be smart but I'm smart enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success." First and foremost on Mayor Thompson's list of successful '"guys" is George Washington...