Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps no modern writer has approximated the simplicity of Lord Macaulay, the Whig historian of England, in his famous analysis of those two contending forces which have governed and disputed alternately since the beginning of democratic processes...
Into a pair of oversized Kentucky shoes, worn only twice before, a Yankee journalist stepped last week. New York-born, 42-year-old Herbert Agar, onetime diplomat, novelist, playwright, poet, critic, historian, became editor-in-chief of the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...asked to imagine that Hitler will renounce those designs on Russia . . . simply because he has defeated his enemies in the west and is now in a position to deal with Russia alone?" The historian felt "It seems in the highest degree unlikely that the Russians will over permit a victory of the Germans...
...conclusions the historian felt that rather than adopt a hard set program we should "develop a healthy attitude of scepticism." Americans are too often inclined, he felt, "to be romantic in their attitudes toward the old world...
...Harvard Corporation has not always been "a board of trustees connected with the living organism of the University only through the President," as Samuel Eliot Morison, professor of History and official Harvard historian, describes...