Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benevolence rolled about in him. He was like an old elephant who may be going to kneel." The once-lovely Kitty is now "one of those well-set-up rather masculine old ladies," and the widow of a Governor-General. Edward is a distinguished old-bachelor scholar. The young people look at the old; the old, who such a short time ago were young, try to remember but find it easier to look at their successors. Before they know it the dawn is in the sky. the party has kept them up all night...
...more details than the others concerning the man of Kerioth in Judah. Still later, after everyone who might have known about the events had died, sects such as the Cainites came to believe that Judas acted as he did to hasten the redemption of mankind, and the scholar Origen maintained that the betrayer hanged himself to seek Christ's forgiveness as soon as possible in the next world. And somehow there crept into Judas-lore a famed, odd detail: that Judas hanged himself upon a flowering tree whose blossoms turned red in shame. The Judas or redbud tree flourishes...
Skiing near Montpelier, Vt., Harvard's President James Bryant Conant tried a fast telemark, snapped a ski, tumbled, snapped his left collarbone. Rushed back to Cambridge, crippled Scholar Conant rallied sufficiently to make his first political statement since assuming the Harvard presidency, denouncing Harvardman Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic government" and "dangerous in the extreme...
Professor Ortega, who left Spain during the civil war and is at present living in France, has written much as an author, journalist, and scholar on modern political and philosophical themes. His most influential works have been "The Modern Theme," written in 1923 and translated into English in 1933; and "The Revolt of the Masses," written in 1930 and translated...
...rule of the thumb of what the scholar has published may be an efficient standard for his progress in the sciences, ham said, but the situation is not the same in the humanities. "What we need is a different theory of administration between the two," he stated, "with more emphasis on the teaching of a subject as a whole as well as the existing stress on individual research...