Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know. He made people see that the best physician was the man who had been grounded in Pathology, the best lawyer the man who had grasped the principles of law instead of Meting himself be swamped by details. To quote a current phrase he "put learning on the map" in more senses than one. To him more than to any other man--I had almost said "more than to all other men--America owes it that her system of higher education is no longer a thing apart by itself a soft of "Ark of the Covenant" too sacred...
...smart London publisher, "rescues" the reluctant orphan, who makes no head nor tail of her relatives' civilized occupations: incessantly scribbling books or about books, doing things they dislike because others do them, concerning themselves with every one's private affairs, eternally gibbling, gabbling. Give Denham a map, a fishline, a toy boat, a cave, solitude. Tall, brown, indolent, untidy, she goes her own way as best she can, through marriage with her uncle's nice young Catholic partner, Arnold Chapel. She has a purposeful miscarriage, a struggle for a cottage in lonely Cornwall, a temporary separation during...
...Whitney, whose altitude is 14,502 feet, was seen first in 1864 by two assistants of Professor Whitney whose name the mountain bears as a permanent memorial to the man who labored so many years to map the topography and geology of this almost unknown country...
...Court I don't blame you. How in hell do you think we can keep New Jersey on the map with you birds talking this way? Put some sex in it. Where's the Hog Lady...
...short way in discussing either or bath, especially when he relates the difficulties of modern education so closely to them. Mr. Aswell forgets that, though he be at an impressionable stage while at college, the student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application...