Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relations Federal Gov. & Pol. Theory Political Theory Eut. Pol. Institu. Party Politics & Federal Gov. Int. Fin. Rela. Federal Gov. Govt. Regula. of Business International Law & Relations History 47 18 9-10 16 7 13 10 American Modern Eng. Modern Europe Greek American Mod. Eur. Fr. & Intellectual Intellect. Hist. European American American Latin American English Medieval Middle Ages Italy English American Fr. Hist. 19th Cent. Roman Renaissance 10 Hist. & Lit. 4-6 7 12-14 5 20 10 Renaissance Eng. or Medieval French England Germany Renaissance Middle Ages America England Renaissance Amer.--17th Cent. Eng.--17th Cent. Hist...
...White House to the Capitol to make Root President. Then he chose Taft as his successor. He knew, as Republican managers did again in 1916, that Statesman Root was simply not "available." He was too brilliant. Politicians had long since learned that the U. S. electorate distrusts high intellect and imperturbable calm...
Benjamin Banneker reputedly built the first clock made in the U. S., published a series of almanacs. President Thomas Jefferson sent one of his tracts to the French philosopher Condorcet to back up the Jefferson defense of Negro intellect...
Definitely the Premier is for work in the basic sense : "We have in France today an overproduction of intellect which is as severe and more dangerous than our overproduction of farm goods or of manufactures. It is time to put an end to this! We must cut short the development of an intellectual proletariat-a social plague which results from granting diplomas without any reference to the need. ... I plan to work out the average number of new doctors, lawyers and engineers needed every year, and to restrict schools to supplying not more than this need...
...Masters children are not bad children; they are just thoughtless when it comes to paying their elders respect or attention. Portly Actor Mitchell has his hands full with them, trying to get them out of scrapes, listening to their shocking biological revelations, accepting their low regard for his intellect. The surprising thing about Fly Away Home is that none of these juvenile antics is anything but delightful, wholesome fun. Needless to say, it is the children who straighten out the adult triangle...