Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merchants and sailors, he has known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner. He has circumnavigated Africa 18 times, crossed it four times. He has been shot, cut, thrown overboard and almost hanged. And now, at 63, before he wrote this, his autobiography, he was penniless in Chicago. Compared to good old Trader Horn, his life has been more hazardous and more colorful, his philosophy and whole existence more worth while...
...recognizes the inequalities of men and of the groups which they naturally form, and which combines such groups in an ascending line between horizontal and perpendicular. Among the cousin groups the only possible nexus, but in the author's opinion powerful enough, is the mutual respect and cooperation of good sportsmanship, the prevailing code among college...
...recent significant innovation among the flood of new proposals by President Hoover is his plan, presumably promoted by "Good Will," to reorganize the Foreign Service. Although "Good Will" may be merely another term for attracting business, efficiency and practically are the generally accepted motives for the programme. As a result of observations made on his South American trip, Hoover has concluded that diplomatic primacy should be centered in Latin America rather than in Europe; for there, legations seem to be diminishing in their demands for unusually gifted diplomats, since policies and ententes already are firmly established...
...unimportant, South American embassies have been filled at times with representatives of little distinguished ability. President Hoover has evidently observed that many of the emissaries are either partially unaware of the opportunities afforded them for serving their country, or are unable to grasp the importance involved in the new "Good Will" policy toward our most promising field of commercial development...
...proposed also to build a parkway from Fresh Pond Parkway at Mt. Auburn St, to the river at Gerry's Landing and across the river by a new bridge connecting with the present Soldiers Field Road on the Brighton side. This would tend to divert a good deal of traffic which now passes through Mt. Auburn St, in front of the hospitals due to the fact that, at present. Memorial Drive ends opposite Hawthorne...