Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these captious criticisms I hesitate to expose myself to counterattack by making positive suggestions on the subject of Harvard's tutorial system. The conditions under which the Harvard and Oxford tutors work are so different that comparisons are not very profitable. The Harvard tutor is not as yet the jealous deity typified by the Oxford tutor, who will have no other gods save him and assumes complete responsibility for the doings of his pupils. The former is therefore in greater danger of being misused as a coach, in order to fill up gaps in knowledge just before the examinations...
...case turns out very good indeed at the last, gives up his native housekeeper and falls into the arms of his old sweetheart from the States. Before he can accomplish this, it is necessary to rid the plot of her unpleasant husband. The riddance is ably assisted by a jealous native and a school of sharks. Stirred into this is a silly ass Englishman, a drunken sailor, a governor general, a fervent thunderstorm and some native dancing. George Gaul is conspicuous as the native boy and gives a somewhat monotonous portrayal. None of the cast was overladen with ability...
...write but little and consumed with longing for Fanny Brawne, whom he could not always see, though she lived so near. His doctor bled him often, fed him little; his illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then his chattering teeth." Keats died...
...radical transformation and vast reforms, abolition of the Califate separation of the State from religion, unification of education, etc., reforms which only a few years ago the world thought Turkey utterly incapable of achieving. "The new mentality of Turkey may be summed up in a few words-jealous defense of the political and economic independence of the Turkish people against all and by all means possible; rapid and decisive strides along the road to civilization and progress, no territorial ambitions beyond the ethnical frontiers of Turkey, and determination to become in European society an element of peace, a factor striving...
...done its work, he was chosen Director of the Advisory Committee of the Council of National Defense. Associated with him worked Daniel Willard, Bernard Baruch, Julius Rosenwald, Howard E. Coffin, Samuel Gompers, Charles M. Schwab, A. C. Bedford. Congress looked with suspicion at the Council of National Defense, jealous of its powers, exasperated by its efficiency. Mr. Gifford did not mind suspicion, but he did not permit interference. He did not hesitate to disagree with Secretary of War Baker over matters of policy, expenditure. He won every argument. One week after the Armistice was signed, he returned to the American...