Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are several of Harvard's most eminent scientists who are among the most sincerely religious men I know", he said. "Such professors are not attempting to unsettle the religious convictions of their pupils. They are merely trying to show them the modern point of view. They are seeking to show how religion expresses the highest values in our day just as it stood for the best that men saw in other days...
...steered the ship of U. S. prosperity through the storm, who at length felt the helm respond. More than most men, Thomas William Lament can be touched, appraised. In obvious and literal ways, this right hand of John Pierpont Morgan is freely extended among men. A cosmopolite, he knows, understands, and likes the thousands of people of all nations with whom he does business. Because he is patient and urban, he is the Morgan diplomat. In more subtle ways, Mr. Lament can be described as a tangible person. Tell him a joke and he will laugh. Offer him an idea...
...violation of agreement, were caught watching Georgia Tech, it looked bad until Coach Rockne wired that whatever the scouts told would be forgotten. Later Notre Dame's Jack Elder (he once outsprinted Olympic Sprinter Percy Williams) and triple-threat Carideo showed that they did not need to know about Georgia Tech...
...Story. Author Aldington lets his audience know at once, as they did at Greek tragedies, that the protagonist is to die at the end. The book begins with the death of its hero. On Nov. 4, 1918, Captain George Winterbourne, exposing himself unnecessarily to heavy machine gun fire, was instantly killed. Attempting to account for that last moment, the rest of the book depicts the life of the hero, of his parents and grandparents...
...Together, Yale and Harvard are four times as strong as either one is alone. ... I am an older man than you. I shall be gone long before you. I earnestly hope that whatever you plan may come to fruition. When I am gone, any improvements which you make I know will benefit no less the institution where I was nurtured...