Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Max, the hero of Author Gerhardi's latest book, is a writer by profession, but women are his trouble. He has a wife, whom he has left in the background and who remains there. His friend Victor, a writer of similar tastes if slightly more stable temperament, acts first...
Two factors probably accounted for this difference: The U. S. has a greater sentimental attachment for France than for Germany; interest in the London Naval Conference, unattended by Germany, diverted attention from the new Ambassador. Between the two diplomatic neophytes there was little to choose. Both were wealthy; neither was...
Even though the Latin temperament seems to prefer outbreaks in favor of autocracy, and the Nordic revolts a means to further Democracy, the younger generation of the world reverts to riots as the logical method of expression. It is Youth's eternal privilege to be indiscreet.
There are various reasons for this; many of them in all probability are due to the temperament of the students themselves. But a reading period of fourteen days' duration can hardly allow sufficient time, after the student has recuperated from the holidays and before he has begun preparation for exams...
Differing Twins. One's ability and personality are not absolutely fixed by birth, but may be influenced by home, school and community, decided Chicago's Frank Nugent Freeman, after noting how twins resembled each other in height, weight, general shape and size, fingerprints, but differed in general mental...