Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What an insult to the educators of the U.S.! So the trustees of Columbia University do not consider any professor in the entire country worthy to be president of that university. They must choose for that office a man [General Eisenhower] who never has had any connection with an educational...
Readers who know the name of James Boswell only by hearsay are likely to consider him an intellectual lackey who simply recorded every scrap of conversation that fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this...
Boswell: "But consider, if I am rich, I can take a number of girls; I get them with child; propagation is thus increased. I give them doweries, and I marry them off to good Peasants who are very happy to have them. Thus they become wives at the same age...
Whenever someone mentions money, Golfer Bobby Locke's ears sharpen to a point. Would Locke consider taking a $5,000 guarantee to play in Chicago's Tarn O' Shanter tourney? asked the man from Chicago. Would he! Locke put in a hurry-up telephone call to London...
At present the Navy is not discussing its plans for the Neptune. It will be useful, suggested one Navy spokesman, for probing the upper atmosphere. If war comes, presumably the Navy will consider arming its peaceful Neptune with a warhead.