Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance to develop normally. All his life he was subjected to a forcing process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine, she had achieved a double relationship to Bonaparte when she was married off to his brother, the crippled King of Holland. After Waterloo she gave up her lovers and let her beauty run to fat in order to train the young Louis for the role of Pretender. It did not matter that Louis was an eight-month child, and probably...
...Hooton's assistants have gone out to make anthropometric measurements of some 20,000 criminals in ten states. From their data he finds not only that criminals are physically marked off from the general population-chiefly by inferiority of bodily dimensions-but that there is "well nigh incredible relationship of body build to nature of offense." An example: First-degree murderers differ from other criminals in being older, heavier, taller, with bigger chest and head circumferences, narrower foreheads, longer and narrower noses, broader jaws...
Such a remedy strikes at what has become to be the particular virtue of the Tutorial System, the intimate relationship it develops between an eager and an advanced mind. Precisely because no two men are alike, the method and approach of one cannot help differing from that of another. Even if students were grouped so that the two intended to work together did so congenially and at approximately the same speed, and with generally similar thoroughness, they will have lost the benefits of intimacy with the instructor. In the personal friendship which frequently arises between tutor and tutee is something...
...continuing to live in open sin with a Jewish wench. To many a U. S. newsreader King Carol's liaison with red-headed Magda Lupescu is only a spicy tidbit cooked up by sexational tabloids, but as a matter of fact in intensely anti-Semitic Rumania their relationship is a real and burning national issue...
With the over-growing participation of the government in business and the close inter-relationship between the two the need for trained experts is greater than over before in the history of our country. Dean Donham's recognition of the problem is timely and his intention of adapting the curriculum to present-day social needs should be encouraged and carried out. Too few men are prepared to carry on the work of public administration and in the past the civil service has not attracted men of the best ability. Were the government to be run on the same efficient basis...