Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early life and writings, which the Harvard tutor obtained and smuggled out of Italy in 1925-26 and 1932-33. The biography, he said, is an attempt to prevent the building of a new "Napoleonic Legend" by reconstructing a picture of Mussolini's early career while the facts are still obtainable and the picture not permanently distorted...
Arnold has spent most of his life in China, having been made Student Interpreter at the American legation in Peking in 1902, the first person to hold this post. In 1914 he was named Consul-General at Hankow and in the same year gained the position he still holds as Commercial attache...
...Ford went into reverse; the Ford went forward, but the two cars still clung together lovingly. The undergraduate, in desperation, looked around for help. At that moment up stepped no less a personage than William Yandell Elliot, professor of Government, and adviser to President Roosevelt. Scanning the situation with a keen, academic perspicacity, Professor Elliot concluded that only one measure would do the trick--manual labor...
Almost single-handedly, he has caused an interest in Harvard swimming that swept it into the major sport class without a dissenting vote. Despite illness which would have kept another man out, he still insisted on swimming in the recent N. A. A. U. meet in order that part of the expenses awarded him as defending champion could be used to help defray his teammates' expenses. All in all, he has been a leader, both physically and morally, who has gained the wholehearted respect, admiration, and support not only of his teammates but also of every one with whom...
...golden, this voice? Ah, no! But now the truly golden voice seemed less reassuring. On it went, delightfully smooth, wonderfully resonant; but the flames, still fluttering, still dancing, slowly died out. Thus rudely brought back to April, 1938, the Vagabond let them die. Time enough to rekindle them later, he reflected; and, in imagination, he will watch the dancing fire and hear the golden voice as he listens to Professor Frankfurter tonight in the New Lecture Hall, speaking on "The Court and Mr. Justice Holmes: Civil Liberties and the Individual...