Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell House, where intellect reigns supreme, has at last been forced to give some consideration to the inner...
...must have completed at least two years of college in this country, be unmarried, and be between 19 and 25 years old in order to meet the requirements of founder Cecil Rhodes' will. Those chosen for the scholarships have, in the opinion of the committee, achieved distinction in character, intellect, or a combination of both...
...from-the-cockpit air admiral ever to achieve the top job of the service, he was for keeping naval aviation strong, and said so. None of this meant that he would have any easy time in restoring harmony. But it made Navy hotheads reconsider: Sherman, an officer of sharp intellect and steely determination, would probably be able to argue the Navy's case, within the limits of unification, better than anyone in the service...
...with scientific discoveries, particularly new theories in eugenics and pre-Freudian psychology, and he makes his characters use these as motivations for their actions. However, where O'Neill's characters are products of the laboratory and only clinically interesting, Strindberg's are stimulating to both the emotions and the intellect...
Professor Skinner gets his birds, or "organisms" as he calls them, from a local pigeon-breeding farm. He admits pigeons are "notoriously dumb creatures," but admires their steadiness of intellect, or lack of it. The farm gives him surplus white homing-pigeons. They are too easy prey for hawks, but make excellent material for the battle of the button...