Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There, last week, over the broad acres of Hobart Ames's plantation, the biggest galleries in years plodded after a field of 23 pointers and two setters, run in pairs for heats of three hours each. Weeks of cold and snow had made birds so scarce that, despite ideal weather, for the first time in all the 40 years of the championship, one heat was run without either dog making a find...
...live" by a Dr. Jameson (Basil Sydney), who examines him in South Africa in 1873. Ten years later he is not only still alive but master of South African diamond mines. With the help of Dr. Jameson, now his best friend, he pushes on to fulfill his lifelong ideal-to unite South Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer...
President Conant did the greatest service of the day in stressing the sadly-neglected difference between the class-room and committee-room. He met the challenge of defining the always clusive ideal of academic freedom by calling it, "the right of a professor to seek that which we call truth according to the best of his ability and his conscience and expound it to his students as well as he can." The legislator who proposed that the majority of the taxpayers determine just what is truth, places much more faith in the electorate than it has so far merited. Until...
...yards behind the line of scrimmage, the remaining backs being aligned usually two to the right and one to the left, with the ends usually removed laterally from the tackles to allow them to get down the field more easily. The formation is well balanced. It is ideal for passing because of the fact that the ends and backs can both get in the open quickly, while the passer is in excellent position to look the field over carefully. It is not as strong against the tackles as the other two formations because none of the backs are in position...
...office. The work of George Biddle, it boasted the longest title of any Government mural: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. In it are the figures of dozens of faithful minors in the New Deal. The mural's "ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross, pressagent for the NLRB. Edward P. Rowan, Chief of the Treasury's Painting & Sculpture Section, is hanging up his coat...