Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Child's History of the World, First Days of Man...
HANNA-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($4). The Man. "Hanna's luck" was proverbial, but like so many easy explanations of success it will not bear scrutiny. Even in business he had his ups and downs; in politics no less. For five years he, a millionaire, tried to make a newspaper pay, and failed. But he was lucky in his name. That name, with its blended suggestions of some old Roman or Carthaginian proconsul, was no title for a mediocrity; Mark Hanna sounded best as either a bum or a conqueror. He was a conqueror. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, son of Leonard...
Russell maintains the theory that it is through scientific method only that man can arrive at a true knowledge of himself and the world...
...after the November elections is responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before an examination; unless a man is willing to get, this sort of instruction earlier than the last minute, he must be content with professional cramming instead of guidance from students who have recently met and coped with his problems...
...employed, Such an experiment could well be repeated, but its value depends entirely on the consent of the tutees. In teaching while there is still time to learn, the organization should be useful and stimulating; but the accurate compilation of spot passages is, properly, outside its sphere, and the man who aims merely at passing examinations will find it of little...