Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...star in one sport with practice can become an exceptionally good player in any game except football," said William Tilden in a CRIMSON interview yesterday. "Every sport requires a certain handling of the body and instinct which an athlete can soon learn to acquire. Football, however, also requires a rugged physique which is not necessary in games like tennis, squash, and baseball...
...well as their bad points and rather than abolish them by law the stock exchange authority should try to prevent their misuse. 4) Stricter margin requirements should be imposed to prevent excessive speculation. Said the report : "It must always be recognized that the average man has an inherent instinct for gambling. ... If abolished in one form it seems always to crop out in another. In America the man of average income has, perhaps, turned to the stock exchange because of the prohibition of various forms of gambling. If the speculative tendencies of our people could be turned into other channels...
...same old acquisitive instinct which from time immemorial has made the individual seek to plant as much and reap as much as he can has apparently thwarted the plan which for several months has been in effect in American agriculture...
Lincoln Steffens, in an interview with the devil, performs an amusing tour de force by identifying satan with that above all things which Mr. Steffens hates--the instinct of conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself...
Adolf Hitler, with a fine instinct for an "incident," last week hastened to Nuremberg with Colonel-General Werner von Blomberg, his Minister of Defense, and General Kurt von Hammerstein, Commander of the Reichswehr. He ordered a state funeral for Private Schumacher. Bareheaded, he led the parade. He delivered the funeral oration, laid a huge laurel wreath on the unlucky private's grave...