Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"For my part, I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character, and does not make his living honestly. . . . With all this injustice, he is never a good case, but, like those among I men who...
Roll River begins in the 1880's, rolls all the way down to the 1920's. Its scene is "Midian," a western Pennsylvania town (Author Boyd's native place was near Harrisburg, Pa.). First part tells the tragic love story of Clara Rand, only daughter of Midian...
Love in Winter is prefaced by the conventional disclaimer that its characters and events are fictitious, but readers will not need both eyes to see autobiographical likenesses in Hervey, the book's central character, may catch suggestions of other actual people (notably Novelist John Boynton Priestley). Love in Winter...
There are some students of human character who support the theory that a man's true personality is revealed only under the influence of liquor. Be the student gifted with superior powers of deduction, however, he may draw interesting conclusions from the actions of men under great stress, as, for...
President Conant's move is in line with his principle of broadening the scope of learning and scholarship at Harvard and with the study of the history of science as a branch of higher learning as the result of the work of such men as Professer Thorndike at Columbia, Dr...