Word: blush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter is not to defend the particular sex questionnaire, with which I have no connection. I have no idea how much scientific validity and value such an investigation may have. But I do wish to call attention to the rotten attitude of Harvard officialdom toward sex. Why do they blush the minute sex is brought out into the open? Why do they insist on pushing it underground where it becomes filth? Why is the most important of human instincts never mentioned more than superficially in any Harvard courses except abnormal psychology and others similar? As for the questionnaire, Harvard will...
...eccentric and unladylike behavior. On a visit to the King of France and in the presence of the entire court "she often rested her feet on a chair as high as the one on which she was sitting." laughed at jokes in the theatre which should have made her blush, swore freely whenever she felt like it. When she finally died in Rome she ordered that her epitaph should read simply: "Christina lived for 63 years." Idaho Dreiser
...Ambassador's plane landed him in Miami, exiled Cuban foes of President Grau embarrassed Mr. Welles by hailing him as one who had "done his best" to oust the President. An impulsive anti-Grau senorita made the Ambassador blush by flinging her arms around his neck and whispering something...
...first blush, the orthodox economists and experts thought they saw only confusion in the plan for a commodity standard, but they overlooked a much more essential point in the President's policy. It is his rejection of the idea of devaluing the dollar by changing the gold content at this time...
...Eddington have long pondered the possibility of a Maxwell-quantum equation. Dr. Einstein could have used it as part of his Unified Field Theory coordinating the laws of electromagnetism, gravity and, light, which he succeeded in expressing mathematically, only to discard the expression when flaws were detected. At first blush Professor Born's feat of cerebral acrobatics seems to hold real promise of help to Dr. Einstein in rebuilding the Unified Field Theory, to which he expects to devote the rest of his life...