Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"What have been the consequences? Our college staffs are weighted with well-meaning but often dull and routine people . . . When one visits the classrooms of these so-called teachers, he is impressed with the aimlessness of performance. The only apparent purpose the observer can discover is to fill the interval...
Settled down in Paris, he works in a studio as neat as a laboratory. There are no still lifes and no models in sight, because he never paints directly from nature. "I discover my picture on the canvas the way a fortuneteller reads the future in tea leaves," he explains...
The Virginians were astounded to discover that their guests had never heard of Robert E. Lee, hurried them to the great man's statue and briefed them on his activities in the Civil War.
That is the strict interpretation of the phrase. Whether or not it is justified by facts is difficult to say, chiefly because there aren't any that can be used. The lack of conciliatory Russian actions in the UN is supposed to be a useful fact, but it proves very...
Social Scientists will seek to discover how each city looks at itself and at other parts of the world. From this data the group hopes to find out why conflicts between various nations arise.