Word: olympian
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...appraisal. Glenn Frank, head of a large Western university and leader of that group in education today which is working almost directly away from Dr. Eliot's conception of the college, writes in the Nation. "A few letters, written in his precise longhand," with "some of the Olympian sweep of his spirit," form the only personal contact between the two men. Robert Littell in the New Republic recalls his early days as a teacher under Dr. Eliot, speaks of the warmth that lay under his austere interior, and of the calm and passionless force with which he gave rebuke...
...Press. Insidiously, craftily--like Californian spies--it took advantage of the coma which was Florida's until she had dug herself out, and blatantly shrieked a tale of ruin. With foul intent the newspapers urged relief funds and salvage societies. But Florida refused to be quarantined. Life is still Olympian at Coral Gables. The Marx brothers can still sell lots...
Events national and international impinged significantly during the past fortnight upon Premier Raymond Poincare. He who stepped from the Olympian security of a onetime (1913-1920) Presidency of France to assume a thankless Premiership and save the franc (TIME, Aug. 2), became once again a nucleus for strife, a target for criticism...
...studied in copies. Roman workers, little more than capable.artisans, copied bronze in marble, marble in bronze; statues in the round were copied in relief; the size was reduced, even the proportions altered. Only two works of Phidias have been surely recognized in copies-the Athena Parthenos and the Olympian Zeus...
...Modernists, a comparatively small group led by Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin of Manhattan. Their attitude, theological and political, is noncombative and rather Olympian save for a few retorts and counter-attacks upon the Fundamentalists. They put forward no candidate for Moderator, and while their vote was responsible for the election of the Moderate candidate, it constituted but a small portion of the entire ballot, which was, theologically speaking, preponderantly Fundamentalist...