Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from its humble beginnings in 1908 the Graduate School of Business Administration finds itself today in a position rich not only in its unparalleled facilities and prestige but in the brilliant tradition of its social and economic service to the nation. The opening of another term in this succession of years devoted to a realization of the emerging significance of business as a profession presents an occasion to consider the potential value of the School both to its students as individuals and to the general public...
Masculinity-Femininity. Men are not entirely masculine, nor women entirely feminine, proclaimed the late Otto Weininger, brilliant German who blew out his brains at 24, just after appointment to Harvard's faculty. At Stanford University Lewis Madison Terman sought ways of measuring sex variations and found 908 points on which men and women differ according to their interests, trends, emotional reactions, preferences, aversions. One out of 100 men, he found, is more feminine than the average woman, one woman out of 100 more masculine than the average man. The sexes overlap in their traits. Living with a woman...
...effort to nominate Mr. Hoover, seeing eye to eye with the astute Ogden Mills who has the same affectionate regard for Dewey he has for poison ivy and measles. ... If there is any following, Dewey will do it, not she. ... A very charming sensible woman . . . she isn't brilliant but she is clearheaded, understanding, independent, much disposed to do her own political thinking. Being a wealthy widow is no handicap to her. . . . But the days when Dewey had two votes are over...
...twig, the praying mantis stalks its dinner, and the chameleon, wearing stockings, stalks the praying mantis. The film, winds up with the celebrated fight between the mongoose and the cobra which Paramount interpolated as an allegory in The Letter. It lacks unity but even so is a brilliant collection of facts, much easier to remember and much more interesting than the deftest spoken lecture. Best shots: an ant getting down into the ant-heap with a splinter ten times as big as itself; a Pirhana fish, no bigger than your hand, eating 120 Ib. of pork in six minutes...
...Hotel Administration. The pictures were faces of twelve men who had taken the Thorndike intelligence test. Six had scored high, six had scored low. The 603 scanners carefully examined each face, guessed at cranial capacities, studied brightness of eye, firmness of mouth, tried to separate the stupid from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid eyes. Surely, said most of the examiners, this man must be a moron. In the other was a man with a straight glance, a high forehead, a pleasant expression. Here, said...