Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munro, however, is not too worried about playing the Indians at Hanover, before the partisan Green Key weekend crowd. As he pointed out, the away-game factor should mean little since almost-ideal travelling conditions have been arranged. The 20-man squad will be able to practice at home this afternoon and still avoid a tiring Saturday bus trip by leaving Cambridge at 6 p.m. today...
When Bannister stepped on to the track last week against Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt, the best of the U.S. milers, conditions were far from ideal for a fast race. The new quarter-mile track had been churned up by some 3,000 pounding runners, a gusty wind was blowing, and any time under 4:10 seemed highly unlikely. For the first half mile Bannister was content to stay with the pack (paced at a stodgy 2:06.2 by Stewart Ray). But before the four runners hit the three-quarter mark, Bannister, clearly impatient with the pace, lengthened his rangy...
...Protestantism: "A tradesman's religion ... He [the Protestant] is to live the life of the world, conscientiously no doubt, but heartily, and his religion is to separate him as little as possible from it . . . The ultimate Protestant ideal is to have no outward or specific religion at all -no priests, churches, theology, Scripture or Sabbath, and indeed...
...tragic to see how successful the societies have been in keeping their members perpetually geared to the ideal of an undergraduate 'wheel...
...military power. A French official stands beside him at all meetings with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became a semi-invalid from an intestinal ailment, took to reading English constitutional history and books about the past glories of Morocco...