Word: peers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mystic Seaport, Shelburne (admission: $3.00) is not a tidy, scholarly reconstruction of any one town or period. Only a third of the buildings show objects grouped together in museum fashion (although many are worth it: Shelburne's collection of 500 handmade quilts and coverlets is without peer). Most of the pieces are simply scattered throughout the buildings. "Some collectors have the place and find the piece," Mrs. Webb once explained. "Not I. I buy the piece and find the place." Six of Shelburne's houses, for example, are furnished for imaginary families whose habits and histories were dreamed...
...chomping tanker once said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Abrams' embrace of battle earned him the unqualified admiration of his fiery Third Army Commander, George Patton: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer-Abe Abrams...
Great Winds. Each page in Lord Russell's autobiography disputes what is on the other side. He combined a rigorous skeptical rationalism with a naturally religious temperament. He was a rich aristocrat in the days when a peer was a peer, but became an "international socialist" and pacifist-exhibiting the gift of naivete that he possesses in such abundance today. Earlier, having become a teetotaler to please his wife, he had taken up drinking again because "the King took the pledge during the First War. His motive was to facilitate the killing of Germans, and it therefore seemed...
...That resulted, after ten years' labor, in the publication of Principia Mathematica, named after Newton's great work, which in many respects it superseded. Almost as soon as the bulky manuscript had been trundled to the university printer in a handcart, young Bertie-Puck, Pan, Pythagoras and Peer -found himself famous, acclaimed as a philosophic genius throughout the civilized world and a master of clarity in the higher regions of human thought...
...church. The college no longer stands so much in loco parentis. The law gives wider latitude for freedom of action. All in all, there is a greater degree of autonomy, a lesser scope for authority. The student stands more on his own and relies more on his peer group...