Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AMERICAN Business Leaders" "suggests if it does not prove" that inborn ability rather than unequal opportunity is still the predominant explanation in the success stories of America's industrial captains. Professor Taussig, director of the research and author with Mr. Joslyn, arrives at his conclusion after a masterful and scholarly analysis of his statistics. While eminently understandable by the layman, the book is at the same time exhaustively precise with interesting appendices, sufficient for the most particularizing pedant...
Utopianissimist Herbert George Wells believes "Man is immortal, but not men. . . . Man ... is more important than the things in the individual life, and this I believe not as a mere sentimentality, but as a rigorously true statement of biological and mental fact. Our individuality is, so to speak, an inborn obsession from which we shall escape as we become more intelligent...
...possess outstanding qualities, I suppose they are good judgment, courage, industry, and a certain inborn genius." So once spoke Abram Edward Fitkin, 52, whose business consists primarily of buying and selling utility properties, who last week was once again negotiating a big deal with Samuel Insull...
...first novel, "Three Steeples", LeRoy Macleod has brought a poet's imagery and style coupled with an inborn sympathy for people close to the land. Such a novel as this must be traditionally heralded as "typically American" or perhaps, "as American as the earth from which its characters wrest their living", leaving to the reviewer's imagination a picture of brawny sons of toil, that solid backbone of the agricultural West and Middle West, that along with the sombrero and the pathos of the vanishing Indian form a part of the great American Tradition. Yet, however incomplete may be this...
With the heavyweight classes furnishing most of the thrills a crowd of about 300 people witnessed the first 13 bouts of the University boxing championships which began last night in Hemenway Gymnasium. Displaying an inborn skill at the manly art D. D. Carrick 24, Canadian American Champion scored a knockout victory over A. D. Robertson '33 in the 160-pound class, laying the Freshman low in the second round...