Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the most exact of the sciences in accuracy. The field is not difficult; its material is of cultural and academic, rather than of practical value, dealing with principles and schools of thought, rather than with the application of these principles. It attempts to give the student some insight into the workings of the mind, both human and animal, an insight which, although it may or may not be of assistance in attaining one's first million, is of decided interest...
...Political Monstrosities" Mr. Kent traces, with extraordinary insight and no mincing of words, the measures by which "cheap and shoddy fellows" viz. Huey Long, achieve real political power in a great state; how they work their publicity, and what can be done to stop them. The triple-screw steamturbined kingfish is shown up by a Voltaire come for judging. It is all "stagestuff," one knows already, but this article shows how it is staged and how received. The thick-skinned Longs and "Big Bill" Thompson are not able to differentiate between the kind of publicity they want when running...
...times terrible, vitality. To be sure, there are none of the tricks which make for artful smooth writing. Rather, her approach is direct, blunt, similar one often remarks, to that of an oral narrator. But her character analysis and descriptive power are nonetheless shrewd, firm, displaying a startling insight...
With characteristic insight and vision Mr. Hoover has directed a foreign policy establishing new landmarks in all directions. ?Secretary of State Stimson...
...Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British Explorer Julian Duguid has described the Pilcomayo as "a vast, foul-smelling, oozy stretch of bog with as much movement as an unsqueezed sponge. ... An Englishman may obtain some slight insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary bicycle. Even then he will not be bothered by insects." The worst insects...