Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, yesterday morning word was had from the Poles, that they were sorry, but Mr. Kwick, evidently of an impulsive temperament, had made a mistake, and the new asteroid was only a scratch on the photographic plate.
Not all scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradox flourishes in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star-clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life...
Last week, in the first volume of another series of novels, the O'Neill's were shown occupying the centre of the same grim stage that the Lonigans recently vacated. Although they are poorer than the Lonigans, they are much like them in temperament: a quarreling, short-tempered...
THE BURNING CACTUS - Stephen Spender - Random House ($2). Five short stories by an English poet, recording the suffering pulsations of sensitive young men-all strangely alike in temperament - in contemporary France, Spain, Italy, England and Austria at the time of the assassination of Dollfuss.
None of these visitors, however, matched in importance a group of 27 who descended in a body on Hyde Park one afternoon. For three long months of an important political campaign Franklin Roosevelt had not appeared before the public save in his full magisterial dignity as President of the U...