Word: loom
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...party, but his writing is astutely stoat-like. His father is chairman of Chapman & Hall, London publishing firm. Evelyn went to Oxford, then followed his older brother into authorship. At Oxford he read history, dabbled in art. Alec Waugh had made a precocious splash with The Loom of Youth (1917); Evelyn obliterated the ripples with Decline & Fall. Now at 31, one of the smartest of London's smart young literary men, he has followed the fashion of his set by 1) getting a divorce. 2) joining the Roman Catholic Church. 3) traveling widely in unlikely places...
...mess of pottage. They are the ones on whom will rest in large measure the burden of paying the freight on the post-war joy ride and the subsequent smash; and whatever follies may have been or are likely to be committed in the name of reconstruction will also loom large on the bill...
...Eotechnic Phase (1000-1750) brought into being new inventions (mechanical clocks, telescope, printing press, magnetic compass), improved older ones (lathe, loom), invented the experimental method in science. "Measuring the gains not in horsepower originally used but in work finally accomplished, the eotechnic period compares favorably both with the epochs that preceded it and with the phases of mechanical civilization that followed...
...really is unfortunate, too, for an attempt to work out the EPIC plan would be a refreshing variation in the mad scramble for booty that goes under the name of politics in California. The sincere, if unsophisticated, idealism of this man who has never worn a dress suit would loom in joyous contrast to the urbanity and nonentity of "Sunny Jim" Rolph...
...President Lowell's regime, the development of new educational methods held the center of the Harvard stage. The system of concentration and distribution, the tutorial system, and the House Plan, one by one took their places in the scheme of education. But it is men and not methods which loom largest in the mind of President Conant. "Harvard's success," he says, "will depend almost entirely on our ability to procure men of the highest calibre for our student body and for our faculty. . . . If we fail in this regard there are no educational panaceas which will restore Harvard...