Word: kind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sally of the brainy into the territory previously sacred to the brawny is not the last of its kind. It is a growing idea that squares nicely with the current criticisms of cloistered education. And, as it is turning out, it may be more valuable as a quiz on comparative teaching quality than as a student activity...
...geometric shaped ideas" magazine I should name TIME. . . . Sometimes I wonder if Voltaire or Anatole France are not included in the editorial staff. As a foreigner, in order to get a closer glimpse of American spirit I have read almost every kind of journalism actually published, and in my opinion, TIME gets the highest praise. The gallant stubbornness of its statements as well as the solid documentation in the background are amazing, and in addition you can always sense a subtle circumspection...
With characteristic British self-righteousness the Foreign Secretary added, "This country has never treated war as an instrument of national policy. . . . No British Government would take an action of that kind...
...Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking too much of the encyclopedia. For study, the book is not adequate; for entertainment and instructive reading, it is as good of its kind as has come...
...instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been put on a sound basis. If the Club's development were restricted to this kind of inner strengthening rather than the hardiness of competition, the loss in adventure might find substantial compensation...