Word: slur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called a great man. He had the kind of brains often prized as first-class because it produces numerically big results. Though one of his technical peers (Lord Salisbury) called his magnum opus "a journal produced by office boys for office boys," Panegyrist Hamilton Fyfe dares repeat the slur, trusting in his faith that the big battalions are on the side...
...Cornell scientists won international fame. Cornell coffers overflowed with the wealth of Hiram Sibley, Henry W. Sage. To Cornell Willard Fiske gave books, money, a building for a splendid library. Cornell teams were invincible. Year after year Cornell crews swept the river at Poughkeepsie. Then it was no slur to be called "Cornell of the West." Into the 20th Century, under able president Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell vigor continued unabated, Cornell reputation high...