Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polled 3 to 1 in favor of unbobbed hair for women in a straw vote decorously conducted by the Conservative Evening Standard. In opposing the concensus of his fellow peers, William Frederick Le- Poer-Trench, Earl of Clancarty doggerelled...
...gangplank of the S. S. George Washington there shambled, last fortnight, an unkempt, lanky man whose profile somewhat resembles that of the late famed Robert Louis Stevenson. Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie. Why should they? Not one American in ten thousand has ever heard of John Dewey...
Already, of course, numerous fruits of Professor Dewey's labors are to be seen, green or half ripened, in the more progressive elementary schools of America, Europe, and certain restricted areas of Asia. The great adventure still looming before the Second Confucius is to persuade fellow educators, parents and taxpayers that the "discovery method" can be applied to successively more advanced classes, and will.not degenerate under incompetent teachers into merely "letting the students do whatever they please...
...Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons...
Finally the heir of the Shoguns retains a point of view at once smartly cosmopolitan and yet fundamentally Oriental. To a fellow tycoon of London he has dreamily and devastatingly remarked: "I have walked for an hour through your great city, this morning, without once seeing a flower in the hand of a human being...