Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mourning frock for George IV, may he rest in peace. Last week, Britain mourned for her, and Britain had a right to mourn for the mother of so much of Britain's virtue: mother of Viscount Haldane of Cloan, twice Lord Chancellor; mother of Miss Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, scholar and first woman Justice of the Peace in Scotland; mother of Professor J. S. Haldane of Oxford; mother of Sir William S. Haldane, Crown Agent for Scotland; grandmother of Professor J. B. S. Haldane of Cambridge, famed biochemist. These were the fortune she bequeathed her country...
...Land Grant Act of 1870 enabled the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. to withhold land from settlers longer than had been intended by Congress. To support his argument, Mr. McGowan produced a letter giving a grammatical analysis of the disputed sentence, signed by Tucker Brooke (ex-Rhodes Scholar and Editor of The American Oxonian), Secretary of the English Department at Yale, and Prof. George H. Nettleton, Chairman of the Department...
...right to hit back when provoked. The essence of his own method of education is best expressed by the common phrase that So-and-so is "reading" for honours in history; it may also be illustrated by the statement in "Who's Who" of a distinguished scholar hailing from Eton and Oxford that he was "self-educated...
...were chests of golden nuggets. Once a quarrel broke out between the Egyptian and the Bedouin members of the company. Hassanein arbitrated, reflected with a deep thankfulness upon the danger he had thus avoided. "For the Bedouins would probably have killed Ahmed and Abdullahi out of hand," reflected this scholar and gentleman. "Then what could I have done, as an Egyptian, but avenge the killing of my countrymen at whatever cost to myself...
...criticism, she has achieved a position of eminence. She has held the undisputed leadership in America of the so-called Imagist school of modern poetry. Her research work on Keats and her volume of criticism on modern French poetry have already won fame for her as a scholar. The fact that she has championed the more radical tendencies in modern poetical form has denied her the same fame as a creative artist, but the consensus of opinion among literary critics of the day stamps her as America's foremost living poet...