Word: never
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prompt. The angelic orchestra, under the disguise of a Faculty, has strummed up the blue pencil instruments. The programs, officially printed on yellow, have been numbered and are waiting. All is ready. Where are the actors? Only the actors are missing. They have forgotten their lines. Or perhaps they never learned them...
...reading of them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds "for these inestimable blessings, for this numberless host of friends who never weary, betray or forsake us!" --Boston Herald...
...full accord with his realization of the growth and change of the language. Usage makes good English. Professor Wendell found it one of his tasks to impress the fact that usage does not require the sanction of generations to become "good usage" and therefore good English. He never professed horror at such a venial offence as a split infinitive. He was, in brief, eminently a man of common sense...
...essays entitled "Psychology and Life." It was followed by more than 20 volumes besides a prodigious number of articles in periodicals. Of his more strictly scientific writings during this period the most important are "Grundzuge der Psychologie" (1900) the first volume of a largely planned work which was never completed,--"Science and Idealims" (1906), "The Eternal Values" (1909), "Grundzuge der Psychotechnik" (1914). In the latter years of his life his interest turned more and more to the applications of psychology, the practical bearings of the science on education, law, medicine and industry. To this series belong, "Psychotherapy" (1909), "Psychology...
...Secondly, does the crew that is behind at the third mile race usually lose? Yes, it does, but this is from the fact that the crew ahead at the third mile is greatly superior to the other crews. In all my 20 years of studying rowing I have never seen a crew which won a four mile race and was a length ahead at the third mile which was not superior in every way to the other crew or crews. This crew would have won just as easily if the race had been the shorter distance. Moreover I have seen...