Word: ernest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...predecessors and contemporaries. Tailor's Progress is one of the few readable books about labor, due in part to Stolberg's lifelong familiarity with his subject, in part to his clearly thought-out philosophic position (he was Harvard-trained under Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking), which strengthens his thinking without getting in the way of his writing, in part to a gift for phrase typified by Stolberg's famed comment on NRA: "So far the New Deal has accomplished nothing that might not have been done better by an earthquake. A first-rate earthquake from...
...Germans were heavily fortified in depth, but the sudden release of pent-up Soviet power was overwhelming. German Commentator Ernest von Hammer described "masses of tanks and fighter-bombers on a scale never seen before during the entire Russian campaign." Red sappers advancing toward the Pronya River behind a wall of artillery fire found pulverized German bodies in shredded uniforms, said that they "looked as if they had suffered death several times...
Says Harvard's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, William Ernest Hocking (Contemporary Science and the Idea of God) in his foreword: "May this majestic poem find its way into the familiar literary friendship of many readers, and contribute to the sense of spiritual kinship with the most gifted people of Asia, akin to us both in blood and language...
Model Boy. Spruance might pose as the model of an admiral in the U.S. Navy, which sets great store by selfdiscipline, intelligence, conformity to Navy pattern. He is a modified version of his starched, icy-eyed commander in chief, Admiral Ernest King...
...Born. To Ernest Tener Weir. 69, chairman of National Steel Corp. (No. 6 U.S. producer) ; and Mary Hayward Weir, 28, his third wife, onetime secretary in his New York office: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: David Manson. Weight...