Word: down-at-the-heel
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...those rare protests against the brutal carrying out of specialization which, on the whole, is characteristic of our educational system today. What sort of a man is it who stuffs himself with useless information? Mr. Gay gives a list of men equipped with "out-at-the-elbow, down-at-the-heel sort of minds" including Herodotus, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Scott, Anatole France and others...