Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both of these measures, the one of the latent powers of the student's mind and the other of the training it has had, are necessarily limited in their usefulness as indicators of his later successes. The capabilities which they reveal with more or less accuracy resemble the system by which education in presented to the student in being only the raw material with which he is to work. Combined in varying proportions as determined by the individual and the college, they mark the outside limits of his achievements. But both system and native talent together can do little unless...
...strain ? that is not old age, but it is the shadow. Physical old age may frequently be seen in individuals of 30 or 40. Before 40 nearly all men and women have begun to feel the signs. Mental old age is a more subtle matter. It comes later than physical old age and the deterioration is slower. (Charles F. Collins, for 35 years head of a New York old people's home...
...Margaret and loved her despite the fact that he had made a bargain for his soul. First he sent his devil carrying presents to her, then he seduced her and finally killed her brother who attempted, idiotically enough, to defend his sister's honor. Faust dared to return later to Margaret, but, infected with diabolical and tragic cowardice, he did not dare to stay...
...Aaron Burr founded it by ruse in 1799. The older Bank of New York & Trust Co., was founded 1784 by Alexander Hamilton, whom Burr later killed in a duel...
...when you read them and that they do not have when filmed. Joan Crawford, a nice girl who acts wild, and Anita Page, a nastv but quiet girl, are after Rich John Mack Brown. Miss Crawford, competent actress, drinks out of the cocktail glasses of three young men and later in the evening kisses three young men in turn, in public, and Rich Boy Brown marries mercenary Miss Page. Young love is thwarted. But one night after a party at the yacht club Miss Page, now Mrs. Brown, gets drunk and falls downstairs and breaks her neck and young love...