Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usher is somewhat more kindly, but he feels that the elaborate statistics adduced by Sorokin do not, on the whole, support his argument. As a historian, Usher has little sympathy with Sorokin's method of ideal types which he believes better adapted to short essays than to extended treatises...
...predicted that if the United States allowed her to continue Japan would eventually menace American interests in the Far East, and said that this is another instance of the democratic ideal being in danger throughout the world...
Jovial Captain. Ernest Orlando Lawrence has an ideal temperament for a man who, in such a position, must be an educator and organizer as well as a crack physicist. He is jovial and easy-going but knows how to handle men and get things done. His grandfather was an immigrant from Norway, his father a schoolteacher. Born in South Dakota 36 years ago, young Ernest was a boyhood friend of Merle Anthony Tuve, now a brilliant physicist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. One summer he clerked at night in a hotel, another summer he sold aluminum ware...
...magic following the final whistle of the game, is much more interested in spotting gentlemen they have seen the week before either in the police line-up or in various questionable albums. The conditions that prevail in the mob that surges around the goal posts are practically ideal for accustomed law-breakers: a great mass of people crashing against each other all intent upon some noble objective and unmindful of skillful snatch artists examining the contents of their pockets...
...blocking back who has to do practically no ball carrying, he is in an ideal position from which to run the team. Paving the way on almost all plays with his blocking, it is he who can best gather first hand information on the Indian defense and he should be the first to defect a weakness. Nor is he open to the temptation of calling his own signal...