Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambitions and his hopes: what a windfall it would be for an eager candidate of the opposition if only Mr. Roosevelt would propose to abolish the Federal Constitution! But it is the idea of an incurable amateur. Mr. Hoover must think that the President is as lacking in political insight as he is himself. He must think the President does not know that an amendment to turn over to the national Government omnipotent powers to regulate wages, hours, working conditions, trade practices and prices would not be ratified by ten American States, that it would divide and wreck utterly...
...important. The material contained in them deals with current problems and is in general based on original unpublished research. Thus they offer an opportunity for gaining information under almost ideal conditions, in a scholarly atmosphere yet free from the bogeys of examinations and grades. Perhaps, too, they provide an insight into future methods of education...
...from the CRIMSON editorial competitions, a few stand out in bold relief. First, the candidate is forced to learn how to condense his most confused ideas into palatable form, to clarify them into the short space of three paragraphs. Second, if he is ambitions and energetic, he obtains an insight into the inner workings of this great university that makes his remaining year or two intensely interesting. He comes into contact with men who have valuable ideas, who will some day become well-known figures. Whereas the average interview for the News Board is necessarily limited to a single topic...
...Having found nothing to write that would give some insight into the recent Greek rebellion, you come out with a biased biography of a traitor whose latest idol is the Handsome Adolf and who imitated him with a Putsch. . . . S. D. Vinieratos Hampton...
...reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding the League of Nations does him less credit than the remainder...