Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Author Brogan's essays feature historical figures, but, in the modern manner, the chosen figure serves equally as a peg on which Author Brogan hangs dissertations on social conditions and any lively bits of stuff that catch his eye. The essay on Marshal Bazaine, for example, is not merely a portrait of the man who lost the Franco-Prussian War, it is also a discussion of the grand tradition of French marshals, from Turenne to Rochambeau...
Personality out of Prejudice. Author Sartre concludes his essay with a few sharp words directed at those who are merely "prejudiced" against Jews. Such "secondhand anti-Semites," he avers, tend to feel that way because they feel very little else: anti-Semitic prejudice "allows them to assume the appearance of passion...
...nominate Hermann Göring as the Man of the Year. I could write an essay on why & wherefore-but just stick around 20 or 30 years...
From a law practice in Shelby, N.C., Gardner swam naturally into Democratic politics. In 1929 he became North Carolina's governor. To the horror of local Southern politicos, he once had himself photographed at a rally with a Negro girl who had won an essay contest...
Somewhat later, but before the Christmas vacation, a survey of students now taking General Education courses will be attempted. Kuhn said that the survey would ask students to write a short essay on their opinions of the course they are taking...