Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To write about a mystic without making him seem too queer is a distinguished accomplishment. Author Williamson's mystic cuts strident across a maze of conventionalities, but he is never cheap, affected, sentimentalized. His theories may well antagonize, but his understanding of animals, his intuition regarding fellow humans, are...
Came the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Foch seemed to divine, by intuition, that President Woodrow Wilson's pledge that the U.S. would guarantee French security was wasted breath. After the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty, Marshal Foch declared with concentrated scorn in an authorized interview...
On the exposed page of a blue-book he read "The significant thing in the work of Blogdenthorp is that he represents his period both in style and material." At once he recognized the English 99 1-2 formula, and knew that his intuition had been right. Beckoning his comrades...
Assuming none the less that vocational training is the sole function of most American colleges, he hastily concludes that the best preparation for an active business life is frenzied outside activity in college. Granting that some few undergraduate organizations approximate the conditions found in actual business life, it is difficult...
Nigger, the little yapping terrier bitch of Edward of Wales, † whined disconsolately by day, all last week, and howled eerily by night. Servants at H. R. H.'s bachelor quarters in York House, London, could not quite shake off uneasy qualms aroused by the dog's palpable...