Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something about Sit-Down. The President sat down and did nothing, and while he did it the situation worked out much to his advantage. New Dealers in Senate and House took the initiative without involving him, thereby appeasing those who wanted action, while the President continued to enjoy the love of Labor to whom silence meant consent...
...Schedule, seven from the Root introversion scale, eight added by Willoughby. Samples: "Are you self-conscious in the presence of superiors?" "At a reception do you avoid meeting the important person present?" "Are you afraid of falling when you are on a high place?" "When on vacation do you enjoy yourself better in a quiet place?" The questionnaire was presented to more than 500 single women aged 15 to 75. Last week Dr. Willoughby set forth his findings in Character & Personality, a psychological quarterly published by Duke University Press...
Most successful international language is plain English, which is spoken by some 225,000,000 people and is assiduously taught and eagerly learned from Helsingfors to Yokohama. Among the made or doctored languages, Esperanto has the most numerous and enthusiastic devotees, who hold frequent congresses and enjoy an extensive literature either written in their tongue or translated into it. But if not already a "dead" language, Esperanto is at least a static one, for its adherents have refused to change it since 1880 when it was launched by its inventor, Dr. Lazarus Zamenhof of Poland. Says Henry Louis Mencken...
...readers will be sure to note his only mention (1915) of the late great Eugene Debs: "And who is Eugene Debs? He writes sometimes in a revolutionary manner. Is he only spineless like Kautsky?" And everyone but Bolsheviks will enjoy this passage, in a letter to ,Maxim Gorky: "Your news that a Bolshevik, although a former Bolshevik, was treating you by a new method, has made me really very anxious. God preserve us from 'comrade' doctors in general and Bolshevik doctors in particular. But seriously, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, 'comrade' doctors...
...purposes of the House plan was to make a place of residence for the undergraduate where he might have the opportunity to enjoy a fuller college life than merely eating, sleeping, and studying. All of the Houses have solved this problem to a certain degree. Here at Lowell everyone will find as ambitious an extra-curricular life as he desires. The Bellboys have not built up the reputation of being a house of athletes, but their teams have always been among the best in the College; and they have maintained posession of the Straus all-sports trophy ever since...