Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Lyons (1859-65), who took the hot blast of Northern resentment at British help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading...
...Glittering Prize. For the winner, the nomination would be more than "the glittering prize" which Historian James Bryce once called it. It would be a terrible responsibility. On the eve of the convention, Dwight Eisenhower, who had been the people's first choice in virtually every pre-convention poll, reminded Republicans of that worldwide fact...
...American Democracy is such a study. Readers are not likely to rank it (as his eager-beaver publishers do) with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) and Lord Bryce's American Commonwealth (1888). But they will find that it stands head & shoulders above the kind of superficial once-over exemplified by, say, John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. (TIME, June...
...universities to emphasize graduate research. Harvard's crusty President Charles W. Eliot had to admit that his own graduate school, "started feebly in 1870, did not thrive until . . . Johns Hopkins forced [it to]." To the tidy campus on the edge of Baltimore went Poet Sidney Lanier, Viscount Bryce, and James Russell Lowell to teach or lecture. Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey and Walter Reed studied there. Its medical school, which often overshadowed the rest of it, also had its prophets: famed Physician William Osier, Gynecologist Howard A. Kelly, Pathologist William H. Welch, Surgeon William S. Halsted...
...Chautauqua, usually with affection. For over half a century it gave to the culture-curious and the culture-hungry a tent show of live entertainment that ranged from the Kaffir Boys' Choir to a course on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, from the measured comments of Viscount Bryce to the soaring platitudes of William Jennings Bryan. Carol Kennicott, the stifled and discontented heroine of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, went to Chautauqua in Gopher Prairie and "was impressed by the audience: the sallow women in skirts and blouses, eager to be made to think, the men in vests...