Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bordeaux was a British city for 300 years. Its cathedral is perpendicular English Gothic. The Plantaganet lion is still on the city shield and a certain amount of British phlegm remains in the Bordelais temperament. Its shipping is crippled. Repeal has had practically no effect in relieving its wine industry...
One of the primary problems of the new administration is this question of faculty replacement. If Harvard is to maintain her traditional high place among American universities, she must see to it that her faculty continues to be characterized by profound scholarship, intellectual creativeness, and progressive temperament; those qualities, in...
Mrs. Peterkin, as in "Scarlet Sister Mary," treats her subject with great delicacy. her familiarity with the dialect and temperament of the Southern plantation negroes is everywhere evident, and there is in her manner a great deal of the idyllic charm which distinguishes the dialect stories of Joel Chandler Harris...
The position of director of publicity of any university, to say nothing of a very conservative university such as Harvard, is bound to be a difficult one. For the academic temperament and the journalistic temperament are not such as to harmonize naturally without the interposition of a great deal of...
Her difficulty in adjusting her good intentions to her Iowa temperament caused sorrowing St. Gandhi to embark on a hunger strike seven months ago. Nilla repented and for five months slept on a bed of bricks in penance. Two months ago she erupted once more, turned up wild-eyed and...