Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornell University graduated Floyd Leslie Carlisle in 1903, expected him to make his mark in the legal profession. For some years Mr. Carlisle did practice law in Watertown, N. Y., but soon the merger instinct arose within him and he organized Northern New York Trust Co. from a consolidation of two upstate banks. In 1916 he headed the group which bought control of St. Regis Paper Co., became St. Regis president?an office which he still retains?and made the company one of the largest paper producers in the East. In 1920 Mr. Carlisle & syndicate bought Northern New York Utilities...
...rawest book I have ever seen. It is like a burnt over forest of scrub pine. There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
...drama instead of a travelog. They have done a good job. Stampede is a love story. It contains a little manufactured anecdote about the struggle of two young men of the Habbania tribe for a black girl, but its real material is a different kind of love -the instinct, probably more impressive than any other human trait, that keeps the tribe marching toward life, fighting the jungle in the days when the river dries up, when the game gives out. The photography is repetitious of other African researches, but lively, imaginative. Best shot: a tribesman running through a burning forest...
...from imagining themselves equipped by instinct to deal with their children, they [modern parents] read great books about all the mistakes they are likely to make, until they become so terrified that they dare hardly breathe in their children's presence and are tempted to leave the job to what are called 'experts,' i.e., to people who have read more of the great books in question. . . . Freud it was who first terrified parents with the idea that there is something sinful, dark and disastrous in the affection of children for their parents. Watson, who disagrees with Freud...
...finally "gone collegiate." Less than a month ago, several students, sitting in the rear of chapel, decided to make the chapel services interesting by betting on what the number of the hymn would be, the one coming closest winning the wager. In a short time the great American instinct for organization led to formation of mammoth "hymn pools." Students pick their hymn numbers before the opening of the exercises, contribute their dimes, stir with restless anticipation throughout the service, and greet the announcement of the hymn with a burst of excitement. After much craning of necks and much consultation...