Word: exaltedness
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Against these proposals, it may be argued that set rules of tenure lessen the University's bargaining power and that professorial competition detracts from the dignity of that exalted calling. But the increased security provided the younger members of the Faculty more than balances the first objection, and the second...
Seen from exalted heights,
The British Empire which is daily exalted in the stentorophonic Beaverbrook press is not the semi-religious conception of Disraeli, nor the gaudy military pageant of Kipling. It is a practical matter, in which plans for extracting power alcohol from nipa palms and wrapping paper from bamboo are seriously discussed...
But principally he sees him as a creature of the great age of English poetry, when poets lived the violent life of their time and when no crime was too brutal and no hero too exalted to have a place in their verse.
More remarkable than the fact that one of the most active gadders in the U. S. can find time to turn out a daily column is the fact that in doing so she has consistently avoided making serious boners. Without being maudlin or saying an ill word of anyone, she...