Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close-packed life of seagoing wardrooms. It will also get him a postgraduate engineering course at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before he goes to duty in a Navy shore establishment. He deplored the fuss about him: "I don't think the American public has matured enough to accept a person on the basis of his ability and not regard him as an oddity . . . just because of his color. I'm just an average...
This doesn't mean that you can get away without any harmful effects drinking one quart a day. A Washington physician says that, on a quart a day, the average person would be a drunken sot; but at least one quart a day won't kill you, science says...
...person who has never read a Wylie book, "Opus 21" is a good buy, though even then it might be better to dig back to some of his earlier, fresher polemics. The veteran Wylie fan had better stick to memories...
Inevitably last week, public attention came to rest on the expansive person of Secretary Louis Arthur Johnson, 58, the ex-National Commander of the American Legion, the onetime Assistant Secretary of War, the big operator in and on the fringes of Government, the thriving corporation lawyer who commands fees up to $300,000 a year...
...contented with me," Goethe confided in his last years to Johann Peter Eckermann, the youth who was to become his Boswell. "[They] always wished me otherwise than it has pleased God to make me ... People expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work ... I believed in God and in Nature, and in the triumph of good over evil; but this was not enough for pious souls: I was also required to believe other points, which were opposed to the feeling of my soul for truth...