Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole world Godfather Sir John acted as he did partly because Fathers Barthou and Litvinoff of the Eastern Locarno had warned him that, should he refuse to put pressure on Germany, they were ready to protect themselves by signing a mutual pact of military alliance. Since France and Russia possess the two largest armies in the world such an alliance would gravely upset Europe's balance of power, the one thing British diplomacy always strives...
...therein, he had little use for scholars who concern themselves primarily with sources and textual criticism." This may have caused him to miss the value of some literature, but this belief made him "restore to literary criticism some of the verve and vigor that it had long ceased to possess." His austerity came through his belief that his position could not be otherwise in a world of emotion and sentimentality...
...week-end to formulate programs for some twenty-odd men is rather obviously insufficient. Not even the most able land conscientious man can correctly estimate the ability of so many men in so short a time while the recluse greybeards inhabiting the Law School and the Semitic Museum possess such a remarkable lack of knowledge of their job that they do not even get to bat. Even older men who are in constant communication with the undergraduate department in their own fields, have grown out of touch with undergraduate feelings and problems in the broader sense. That ideal adviser...
...powerful middle class and in the other to the weakening of the middle class by economic stress associated with the war. Hence preservation of economics freedom depends upon the development of this middle class which is not susceptible to "the contagious emotions of huddled crowds"; which neither covet nor possess such wealth as to inspire coveteousness in others...
...feels such changes necessary. He well may take much of the responsibility in the task of selecting desirable men for the new scholarships proposed by President Conant. This is something which calls for keen judgment and ability to analyze high school men which the Chairman must certainly possess. Possible revision of the College Boards and their use in determining the fitness of men to enter college is another problem that the Chairman must be concerned with in the near future...