Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before it reached the stage, Novelist Greenwood's bitter description of the miserable living provided by Government bounty had assumed something of the authority of a State paper in Britain. It was referred to by members of Parliament when discussing the plight of the "depressed areas." Novelist Greenwood...
"is whether the Government is to determine by law what is art. In this instance there is no question as to the moral character of the objects under consideration. They are denied admission on the sole ground that they do not completely meet . . . court decisions for works of art." Finally...
His investigations, moreover, were confined to pupils in the high schools of three Massachusetts towns, a singularly restricted erea of examination. No private schools or distant fields of endeavor were included in the experiment, and little or no effort at obtaining a general cross-section was made. In addition, the...
Few spectators have any knowledge of the character of Pasteur to act as a check on the performance of Muni. But the stolid determination, the unflagging perseverance, and the simple kindliness so ably portrayed by Muni jibe nicely with the popular conception of what the quite genius must have been...
Then why not yet in Harvard? Well, I've tried enough. I've tried to lure your professors into telling you falsehoods; I've tried to lure your administrators into oppressing you; I've tried to break down intelligence through weakness of character, and goodness through stupidity. All without success...