Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adrian Conan Doyle, younger son of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, himself set pen to paper in an attempt to settle the aging argument about the identity of Sherlock's prototype. To the London Daily Telegraph he wrote: "The fact is my father, himself, was Sherlock Holmes. It was...
But the field day was soon over. The small-fry cases proved to be two-day stories at best. The Lonergan case, born in a palace, died in an alley. Its climax: estranged Husband Lonergan, who had fled to Toronto and been brought back by plane, had pulled the job...
William Gillette, the theater's late great Sherlock Holmes, was presumably at ease about the overwhelming stone castle and miniature railway he left on his hilltop estate at Hadlyme, Conn. The borzoi-faced star had been the live-steaming engineer on his three-mile Connecticut Nutmeg & Great Western, whipped...
Defining a liberal in the field of education as one interested in introducing new techniques of teaching and in attempting the use of a greater variety of these new methods in the educational system, Holmes went on to describe some of the present controversies in educational theory.
Holmes stated that he considered education a "continuous process having no definite point at which one can attain a general education. It is the philosophic interpretation of scholarship rather than the gaining of specific knowledge that is most important in education." Specialization therefore should not start at any pre-arranged...