Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard. "He found it a college; he left it a university." Europe, in which he spent two of the early and one of the later '60s as a young mathematics and chemistry researcher, conceived the U. S. as an intellectual wilderness with but one stockaded stronghold of pioneer culture...
Two raddle-faced ruffians glared at each other across a table in a waterfront saloon. The little glasses at their elbows were empty, and a third man, standing over them, asked blandly for a new round of drinks, and took his place at the table. After a whispered conference the...
Cosima Wagner, widow of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, who first triumphed in Gemany just 50 years ago. The old woman sees onetime King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, onetime Field Marshal Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannh...
Paul Mellon, whose father guided him through Rome and pointed out "the glory that was. . . ." Paul had recently emerged from his Freshman year at Yale, where he was awarded a prize for "excellence in English composition" and was also elected to the Yale Daily News.
Belgian editors, lauding this new evidence of royal democracy, pointed proudly to the royal garage last week. There His Majesty's three sleek, Belgian-made Minervas have stood without aspirating so much as a drop of gasoline since the King, as Dictator (TIME, July 26), demanded national economy to...