Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Common Pool. Huxley moves from man's tree-borne forefathers, acquiring intellect, to full-fledged men, who began to teach each other what was learned by experience. This ability proved to be the evolutionary jackpot...
...editors of the Bulletin recommend that a man who possesses at once youthful energy, an above-average intellect, convincing leadership and a charming wife should be chosen to fill the University's most responsible position. It is my firm belief that the one man who contains these attributes and gifts in the most harmonious proportions is Dean Francis Keppel of the Graduate School of Education. Dean Keppel is probably the youngest administrator, on a truly responsible level, in the University at this time. In addition to his administrative experience and ability, he is also a splendid teacher...
...moths in London and Salisbury. He was a big, ruddy-faced fellow, standing over six feet, with a chest like a barrel and a profile like something in a Punch & Judy show. His eyes, however, were "dark, and as full of sweetness as of fire," and his wit and intellect were already honed to a cutting edge. In London's beau monde of 1727, the petticoats rustled and the epigrams bristled where young Henry passed; he appeared to like the sound of petticoats best...
...bombast and ill-will, all the more venomous now that Republicans have their mandate, one of the nation's finest Secretaries of State left office last week. Brilliant enough to create profound policies, efficient enough to extract the best from his department, and bold enough to trust the experience, intellect, and judgment that went into foreign affairs during his regime, Dean Acheson is now reaping the sort of chaff great statesmen usually do in insecure times. When all has blown away, we suspect that Americans will appreciate fully the services of a man so well suited...
...least five seniors have a chance to "get a firm toe-hold on the educational ladder; to work among the Tlingit Indians, and to enjoy pleasant social intellectual companionship with people of superior intellect," the University of South East Alaska announced yesterday...