Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, contained in a series of brilliant pamphlets, was to make coherent policy out of the deep distrust which Tories felt for the new Socialism. Rab replanted the sturdy old roots of Toryism in modern soil. The guiding principles of his philosophy were 1) a belief in the divine origin of the human personality, and 2) a faith in Christian ethics. Rab denied the cynical Marxist view of British history as the selfish struggle of classes; he saw it as a long odyssey of the individual toward the fullest expression of himself, in which each tradition and each institution...
Asked at a news conference in Trenton, NJ. what the term "egghead" means to him, Adlai Stevenson quickly replied: "I don't know the origin. I would only have this to say: 'Eggheads of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks!' " Later, in North Carolina, where he went to visit his sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives, and play golf, Stevenson developed a sudden back pain, was whisked off to a hospital, where doctors decided he has nothing to lose but a kidney stone...
Lack of a tower has occasioned many attempts at construction of one by applied science majors in the House. The traditional Bunny of mysterious origin appears at important events (i.e. Leverett football games and dances...
...origin of corn, America's most important food plant, has puzzled botanists for more than a century...
...mocking tones of one who will never be shackled by ties of tradition and sentimentality. "We spit on Bonny Prince Charlie and Flora Macdonald. on Rizzio's blood and Mary Queen of Scots. [But of all Company Directors in the City of London and overseas ... of Scottish origin we lick the shoes; all Scotsmen who have succeeded at the English bar are remembered nightly in our orisons...