Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute, uttered words of God : " 'Let there be light.' " The words stood for the keynote of the Institute's month of sessions to follow. Whereas the past four Institutes had examined past and present, now the future was to be scrutinized, predicted, perhaps shaped, through candid interchange of aims and beliefs in a polyglot gathering, wherein at least a portion of the 232 men of theory were men of action as well. Lionel Curtis, editor of The Round Table (London), led off for the visiting speakers with a concrete proposal for speedy mobilization of the opinions...
...Story amounts to the candid, cluttered journal of Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, a young man born in Japan of Russian-Scotch-Spanish-Italian-English-Finnish-Swedish ancestry. He is an Oxford intellectual, serious-minded, he feels, but is engaged for the present with a Major Percy Beastly on a mission to Manchuria for the British War Office. In the life of Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, wars and missions are very unimportant indeed: He spends a lot of time thinking about Life and Death, writing or making jokes about them. Nothing is very important...
...slightly bent figure that stood almost shrinking while Eliot spoke, the bowed head, the downcast eyes-and the cheers that shook the theatre? " Le Baron Russell Briggs.' A wondrous voice rang out the words. Le Baron Russell Briggs. The well-beloved dean of Harvard College, patient, tender, discerning, candid, just and cheering because convinced of the overwhelming predominance of good in the student world.' And unshaken and unshakable in this conviction, which is the soul of love, for more than 40 years Le Baron Briggs has walked among us and wist not that his face shone...
...true student cannot be bound by such restrictions. He will see in Emerson the model of what his attitude should be. "If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgement? . . . . I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case. I am here to consider...
...scholar the man he is looking for, the scholar can lead him anywhere. But the tremendous forces that have made Ferguson what he is have left him where he refuses to see the scholar if the man is not there. It is said that he will learn nothing. No candid observer could claim that the outward signs of mental accretion are overwhelming, but in private conversation Ferguson displays at times a disconcerting clearness of vision, and a wealth of real understanding about a lot of things that he regards as important. . . . "One great need ... is a good 'contact...