Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rotarians were especially puzzled by Count Keyserling since their official mottoes are "Service Above Self" and "He Profits Most Who Serves Best." For all who simply cannot understand philosophy, Count Keyserling has pap. Example: "America is ruled by women...
Molnar. The sleepy celebrity, the one with a monocle on the right side of his plump face, the self indulgent one who sat silent at formal dinners but roistered about Manhattan with his friends?that one was Ferenc Molnar...
...helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer, nor as an excellent violinist, nor as a keen tennis player, nor as an amateur of literature and drama. A self-taught artist, Dr. Michelson had his only instruction in drawing as a midshipman at Annapolis...
...reading and, through extension courses and other agencies they may have suggestion and guidance in that reading. The experiment at Harvard will be watched with great interest, and not alone by those who desire college careers. Its results, if successful, may lead to the adoption of "reading periods" for self education outside of college walls. New York Times...
...TWOULD be like pointing a brutal, misunderstanding finger at a youth in his first long trousers to criticise this small book of poems from a Conrad Aikenian standard. Gently they must be handled, delicately discerned to have appreciated the sensitive, self-conscious moods, the awkward, almost blushing moments...