Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence of self-reliant, independent thinking the book has merit; it may be the type of literature needed to stimulate an intellectual awakening and a keener interest in scientific theory. Its unorthodoxy in itself is no criterion. John Stuart Mill once spoke wisely of the "clearer and livlier impression of truth produced by its collision with error...
...Lauder, Sir Harry. . . . Educ; by Stumpy Bell as a half-timer in Arbroath. Career varied: first, mill-boy in flax-spinning mill, then a miner, now is what the people have made him. . . . Recreations: trying to hit a wee gutty ba', trying to catch salmon and trout, motoring...
...been unsympathetic in their treatment of prodigies. It is possible that the notoriety of the present case several years ago was too much for its subject, and he gave up in disgust. Or it may be that Mr. Sidis had not the capacity of Professor Gildersleeve and John Stuart Mill to carry on with his work. Whatever the facts, the Tribune has succumbed to the democratic temptation to crow over the failure of an extraordinary individual. The case, of course, proves nothing whatever about prodigies, except that the crowd is jealous of them...
When a vicar in Yorkshire, Baring-Gould fell in love with a mill-hand, sent her to school, married her, wrote (as a novel) the story of his romance (Through Fire and Flame), scandalized the conservatives...
...this juncture Mr. Widener (whose private gallery at Lynnewood, in the Elkins Park suburb of Philadelphia, contains a dozen or more of the finest Rembrandt canvases that ever have been brought out of Europe, including that celebrated landscape chef d'oeuvre The Mill) intervened, and paid or advanced as a loan to Prince Yusupov 100,000 pounds sterling, taking over the two paintings as security. It was announced at the time that he had purchased them outright, and evidently Mr. Widener himself preferred to view the transaction in that light, as he tightened it up with an iron-clad...