Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interesting was the fact that Detroit's exhibition was not assembled by the best known U. S. Persian scholar, Dr. Arthur Upham Pope, but by a member of the Detroit Institute's own staff, swarthy, hook-nosed Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, a Persian scholar of almost equal authority. A Russian-born Turk, Dr. Oglu probably would never have known the difference between the Timurid School (1390-1480) and the followers of Bichiter the Great if his childhood ambition had not been to become a naval officer...
Throughout, Mr. Sheean is in search of some means of solving the ago-old problem of the relation of the one to the many, of the individual to society. He tries in vain to find a hitching post to which he can hook his personality beyond all danger of becoming loosened. The reader, reflecting on the author's self-contempt at being unable to espouse and realizes what Mr. Sheean could not that, as shown in "Personal History." Communism is in the last analysis but another extreme, another Utopia. One leaves Mr. Sheean convinced of the significance in the fact...
...could fail to choose courses. The conclusive test for him must be the danger of losing tutorial benefits anyway, if courses are not first dealt with, or the danger of losing out on well-deserved honors and scholarships. So tutors and tutorial are neglected. Courses are passed off by hook or by crook. And many a graduate has benefited nothing directly from the education which he, with idealistic and generous endowers, have paid for. Like certain types of preferred stock, the tutorial system is attended to only after all other issues. Sometimes the residue is very slight, or zero...
...there's this to be remembered; nations will have arms in this scrabbled epoch, L. of N. or no. The arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results...
...other Harvard winner was Stuart Finer, 115-pounder, who worked a jab, cross, and hook against Newman to put him on the defensive after the latter's early aggressiveness...