Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything of value in the way of breadth...
...certain degree of universality and detachment from material objects has been expected from earliest times, have become violent partisans of this or that nationality and of this or that national culture. Therein lies what M. Benda terms the Treason of the Intellectuals. That many of these intellectuals have lost their broader out-look in a militant patriotism is undeniable; that this should be regarded as an act of treason is more than doubtful. M. Benda's readers will possibly prefer to regard it merely as an indication of the extraordinary degree to which national consciousness has developed...
...reactions. This lends that personal touch which serves equally well as a main, solemn connecting thread through out the story and as a gripping bond with the reader. With all the many complications which might easily arise under the scope of such a colossal task, the reader never feels lost or bewilderd. The delineation's of the actual characters of the Civil War which Benet draws are superbly real. They glow with the intense fire of humanity and the heat from them makes every word sparkle with the sheer reality that at last a poet, using a medium of great...
...Coolidge's Yankee twang did not hurt his candidacy much in 1924, and I hope, as a life long Republican and sincere admirer of Herbert Hoover, that the election of 1928 will not be won or lost because of "New Yorkese...
When Roosevelt came home, he did not like the way his man had turned out. He tried to block his renomination and, failing in that, founded the third party that lost for them both in 1912. Soon the Yale law faculty had the distinction to include an ex-President...