Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, when they play each other, both Michigan and Northwestern fans will know a little more about which of their teams is championship bound...
...Know?" But most of Akeley's students liked him. To his partisans, he was a Socrates who left no orthodoxy, no complacency and no institution unexamined ("What do you know? How do you know it?"). When two months ago the trustees slipped Socrates the hemlock ("Your usefulness . . . has been fulfilled"), Akeley's student followers picketed the president's office in protest...
...20th Century was William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury when he died in 1944. His faith, courage, wisdom, humor, leadership, humility-and holiness-made him the rare combination of a prelate who was also a prophet. Those who knew Temple will never forget him. For those who did not know him, there is now a fine full-length portrait: Dean F. A. Iremonger's official biography, William Temple (Oxford University Press; 663 pages; 25 shillings...
...looking at his father, with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth, he bravely cried out, 'I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet...
...qualified yes. He has made Washington human, in the sense that he displays human feelings, but he has not-in the first two volumes, at least-made of George Washington a more lovable figure for popular consumption. Readers of the seven thick volumes on Lee and his generals know that Freeman is not a portrait painter who gets his effect with quick, inspired strokes; his method is careful and cumulative. His works are what book reviewers are apt to call monumental, and monumental they literally are: built block by patient block, soundly based, immense, monochromatic-and towering high...