Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato does give both; and I am glad to read...
When the renovation of the Freshman Adviser system takes place--and it can not be put off much longer--it would be well to make of it as nearly as possible a mere introduction to university life. This can best be accomplished by confining it, in its new and efficient form, to the first half of the Freshman year, after which the student would be immediately introduced into the tutorial system and a field of concentration...
...philanthropies like Jane Addams' Hull House and the Glenwood Manual Training School south of Chicago. He fathered the enabling legislation that promoted Chicago's Lake Front development. But before he died, old "E. B." reluctantly admitted that the cherished catalog that had made him rich could no longer serve as a wholesaler's sole support...
When Rome was no longer too hot to hold him Caesar soon established himself there as one of the shrewdest schemers of a conspiratorial day. He fished to such good purpose in Rome's troubled waters that eventually he caught the great Pompey and the millionaire Crassus in his net, became with them one of the three rulers of the Roman world. Then he went off to make his military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome...
...last week there were few men still alive who believed in the divine inspiration of the Treaty of Versailles. The world no longer believed what the Allies put in writing in 1919: that Germany and its allies were solely responsible for the War. But to readers who still took the unreconstructed view that the Western World had been invaded in 1914 by a barbarian horde, an Xerxes' host, Theodor Wolff's study of war origins would seem a surprisingly civilized Persian version. The Eve of 1914 let no unsuspected wildcat out of the bag but recounted in scholarly...