Word: nocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fields," Niebuhr will speak on "The Relation of the devotional service will be conducted Revelation to the Meaning of History." One of the few Americans to have been appointed to a Gifford Lectureship of Scotland, an honor which he shares with Professor William E. Hocking and Professor Arthur Darby Nock of Harvard, he is the author of many books and an editor of the "Nation...
Numbering among its Tutors Associate Professor Michael Karpovich, History: Professor William L. Langer, History; Associate Professor F. O. Matthiessen, History and Literature; Arthur Darby Nock, History of Religion; Eliot is one of the best staffed of the Houses...
...commotion in the doorway has sounded his triumphant arrival and Nock shuffles up the aisle, tipping his cocked hat to admirers and gayly swinging a useless cane. As he hustles to the platform he appears flustered about the coming performance. He dumps out a stack or books and papers on the table and more or less tears of his monotonous black cloaking, revealing another layer of rumpled blackness. The first communication to the audience may be anything from a grin to an inimitable gargle -- one of those special Nock guttural noises denoting pause and hesitancy. Then a stream of words...
...thirty-nine, Nock is one of the more aggressive members of the Faculty. He has netted an enviable string of honorary degrees and societies in Europe and America. Among his several books is the well-known "Conversion." In his field of near-eastern ancient history, sociology and religion, he is the respected authority. Nock is an immutable believer in the disciplined education, preferring a mastery over a small ground to a widely spread glib acquaintance. To him the greatest social crime is the easy school. In this he speaks from experience, for, born of humble parentage, it was only...
...Nock absolutely refuses to let erudition exclude humor. A good time is his ideal, whether on the platform at Harvard or in the catacombs of Rome. A messy desk and a baggy suit are the first steps to scholastic success. He prides himself on the library so swelling that it over-flows onto the kitchen stove. Life for him is a succession of research, lectures, writing and travel. He must, in his own words, "walk just fast enough forward so as not to run backwards, Righto...