Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislators last Tuesday, he was defending the University against what has recently become a very serious threat to its financial security. Periodically a legislator comes forward with the suggestion that the schools and colleges of Massachusetts should no longer be exempt from taxation, and Harvard must explain the seemingly curious fact that an institution boasting an endowment of several millions of dollars cannot afford to pay a small amount to the community...
What goes on behind a waiter's poker face? Many a nervous, exasperated or curious diner has often wondered. Last week a waiter took off his uniform and tried to tell. What he had to say was disappointing. Thirty-year-old Dave Marlowe (real name: Arthur Timmens) has been a ship's steward on British and U. S. liners, a waiter in New York speakeasies and night clubs, has worked in swanky London hotels, in rowdy pubs. But apparently he paid as little attention to the guests as they paid to him. As a ship's steward...
...years-it is not surprising that he gives a curious impression of South America...
...discussion of teaching versus research, Professor Jones distinguished between two opposing temperaments: the type that likes its opinions readymade; and the intellectually curious. The Romans, he said, belonged to the first type, great empire-builders partly because of their "honest stupidity". The Greeks, who created the culture that the Romans consolidated, fall in the second classification...
Corinth Was Curious...