Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christopher Morley, well known essayist and novelist, waxed a bit sarcastic in the latest number of the Saturday Review in describing the effect of the new Yale College buildings, "where architects have gone whoopsdearie in Gothic. The new Yale needs a lot of walking on to give it character. ...The...
The rule which Haley violated says that "No student shall represent his University in any athletic team or crew who receives, from others than those on whom he is naturally dependent for financial support, money, by gift or loan, or the equivalent of money, such as board and lodging, etc...
Based on the highly debatable theory that the Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not...
Today most learned Jews apparently prefer to dwell on the vagueness of biological racial distinctions and the fallacy of "Aryanism" rather than search for signs of a mental orientation that sets Jews of whatever nationality apart from non-Jews. But not Abraham Aron Roback, thoughtful and erudite Jewish psychology professor...
Biographers have usually met the problem of Grant's politics by placing the great warrior and the poor politician in closed compartments and permitting no commerce between them. William B. Hesseltine has met it, in his exhaustive, 480-page study, by placing all emphasis on Grant's political career. The...