Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...idealism whose main object is to overcome the conflict between religion and modern science. He has been honored with degrees by the greatest universities of the world, and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1908. In all his work Professor Eucken has displayed the powers of genius. We are most fortunate to secure an opportunity to study under this famous scholar...
...snarled roots and branches. There will be seen little devils of deceit and special privilege, introduced into the tariff, there introduced to each other, and then forming a collective family and posing as the idol of American prosperity. The tariff has not created our prosperity but the extraordinary genius of the American people. The area of free trade with in the country has been too great to allow the influences of the tariff to be felt, and it has made little difference what the height of the tariff so long as there has been free competition behind it. But that...
...thus links his name with those of the great benefactors of Harvard University is a German by birth, and that the motive of his generous action has been the wish to establish at the oldest American university an institution which shall bring to view the best that German artistic genius has given to the world...
...much to facilitate the interchange of professors between Harvard and Berlin, we succeeded in obtaining the services of Professor German Bestelmeyer of Dresden, one of the very foremost architects of contemporary Germany, whose recently completed Central Hall of the new University building at Munich is an undoubted work of genius and justly enjoys a more than national reputation...
...critical powers were keen and accurate, and they had been trained to practical uses by his study of the law and his experience as a newspaper correspondent. His talent for detecting the besetting sin of a young writer and for characterizing it in a pungent phrase amounted to genius. His vivacity was amazing. He came to each day's tasks as fresh as if he had never been through them before. Often as he had to say the same things, he never said them twice alike. His comments were so sharp and searching that they sometimes irritated for the moment...