Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen by people all the way from peon pecan-shellers to her son Jimmy's boss, Samuel Goldwyn. On this trip, she said, she had encountered less Isolationist sentiment than ever before. Said she: "There are still people who think that we can cut ourselves off from the rest of the world, but more people are less secure in this belief...
Active Retirement: In 1933 Dr. Cushing returned to Yale, and in 1937 he retired. But retirement, to Harvey Cushing, did not mean rest. He hates vacations, spends his day at the New Haven Hospital. In the evenings he plays backgammon with kindly, sociable Mrs. Cushing. His greatest relaxation is playing with his two little granddaughters, Sarah Delano (age seven) and Kate (age three), the children of his charming, blue-eyed daughter Betsey (Mrs. James Roosevelt). Social affairs he has always detested. Mrs. Cushing tells a story of how she once tricked him into going to a coming-out party...
...with logs, mud, leaves, boughs, increases its depth and area, builds along the water's edge a lodge for his family. He works mostly at night. In November, when the frost sets in, he stops work, seals his home with mud (which soon freezes solid), takes a long rest...
...everything from Browning to blowing smoke rings. Its main bulk is given over to his many letters from famed writers, to his reminiscences of 41 years as English professor at Yale. (He estimates that he has taught almost 17,000 students, the majority of whom "have had for the rest of their lives a strong affection...
...sacrifice will be the administration, for the abolition of intercollegiate competition in minor sports means the abolition of a corresponding amount of publicity--publicity which Harvard must greedily seek no matter how proud she is. It means in addition the abolition of a certain amount of contact with the rest of the collegiate world, and a shrinking back into a cramped Cambridge-New Haven shell. Fortunately these effects are quantitatively unimportant. And opposite them can be entered the more-than-compensating gains to the student body as a whole...