Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majority Leader Killgrew appealed to the higher emotions (not to say intellect) of his colleagues, remarking in scholarly fashion: "Why, even go back to Adam and Eve, and you find they even were a fig leaf," Fortunately no fellow-legislator cared to delve into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden...
...Louis Wiley power was conjoined with goodness, masterfulness of intellect with kindliness of heart. This man had it within him not only to do with all his might whatever his hands found to do, but he was wont to perform his daily labors with the same grace and joyousness as a mother serves her beloved child. It was because of his rare gifts and disposition that Louis Wiley was able to overcome handicaps. . . . With such a nature, it was inevitable that he should regard the Press as a social agency and not as a personal vehicle...
Each of the five Assistant Chiefs is selected to advise the Chief within a special field. They are picked for intellect rather than exploits. All of the present Assistants (see pp. 16 & 17) are veterans of both the Spanish-American and World Wars, though none has commanded a division in the field. Two out of five are non-West Pointers, a just proportion since the ratio of Military Academy graduates to non-graduates among Army officers is about...
...Harvard man, according to the Smith girls, is an "effete, supercilious, broad A, intellect," an a Yale man, says Radcliffe, is one of a group of "rah, rah boys who ask silly questions like this one." Dartmouth is, however, "good for weekends" (Winter Carnival stuff). Williams and Amherst are dismissed with even less courtesy than the Bruins...
...chests and straighten many young shoulders. It will be nothing less than the great man deserves. But there will be a horrible jarring note to anyone who thinks. Mr. Holmes was a jurist, a man who made his mark on the world through the power and justice of his intellect, through hours of painful and thorough work, through consistent disregard of self and consideration of first principles first; not through the seizing of a propitious moment for one rash deed of physical courage...