Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following Bicentennial Essay is the third in a series that will appear periodically into early 1976 and will discuss how we have changed in our 200 years...
...Weber, in his famous essay, these sentiments were the essence of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. They sum up an ethos that is against the profligacy of a court life or the indifference to time of a Mediterranean culture. Franklin defends as just an attitude that in medieval life would have been condemned as avaricious...
...upon a time Rudyard Kipling was adored as the bully-boy balladeer of the British Empire, a hearty fellow whose prose as well as his poetry thumped as cheerfully as a barroom song-when, that is, he wasn't spinning animal tales for children. Then, in a famous essay, The Kipling That Nobody Read, Edmund Wilson updated this naïf into a modish vision of mid-20th century tragedy...
When a case is presented in committee, everyone has the docket in front of him. The area man presents a summary, reading from the school and teacher reports, the student's essay and the interview report...
...essay is usually a neutral factor in admission, written carefully on a safe subject, like the applicant's hometown or extracurricular activities. "But in about 10 per cent of the cases it's really interesting and well done," Reardon said. "It brings to life what may not have come out in the application itself and in about 10 per cent of the cases it's a disaster...