Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minthorn heard about a university that Senator Leland Stanford was founding in memory of his son and namesake, down in a meadowy place called Palo Alto, near San Francisco. Nephew Herbert went there, immature, shy, curly-headed, precocious at 17 except in English. Professor John Branner helped him become a prodigious geologist. Also, in that first class at Stanford University, Herbert Hoover had his first taste of politics...
During the first 15 years of her married life, Mrs. Hoover, herself an able geologist, accompanied her husband to China, to Mandalay, to St. Petersburg, to the Alps, except when the exigencies of motherhood (two sons) prevented. Hoover offices girdled the globe, above and below the equator. Hoover homes followed them, but, according to Biographer Irwin, 1907 was the only year prior to 1914 in which the Hoovers did not spend some time at their California base...
...central fact militating against Candidate Hoover is that many people cannot understand what he stands for. He is no forthright protagonist of an ideal or program. He puts forth no clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell...
...that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming to embarrass the U. S. by making the latter's "pacification" program seem more illegal than ever. Since the Nicaraguan election does not come until October, the immediate necessity for 1,000 more marines at Managua was obscure, except as moral support for the Administration's policy...
...years ago no gentleman built a country house without putting in a billiard room. Now those billiard rooms have been turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening...