Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chris Simpson's father, a violent-tempered Italian, present whereabouts unknown, married Chris's Irish mother, present whereabouts unknown, when she was 15. They begat nine children, whom the father never supported and frequently abused. When Chris, the youngest child, was five, the State of Michigan decided that...
Two years ago educators began to hear of strange happenings at famed Teachers College. At a memorable faculty meeting, professorial sympathizers with the college's striking cafeteria workers were tongue-lashed by quick-tempered, conservative Dean William Fletcher Russell.
Sidley leads him into dissipation, introduces him to wealthy friends, seduces his sister. For several chapters Greene's sister Alice runs away with the story, fights her way back to respectability, grows heroic without ceasing to be an outraged, sharp-tempered, occasionally foolish female.
A year ago no two horse-racing enthusiasts could agree whether War Admiral or Seabiscuit was the No. 1 thoroughbred of 1937. Temperamental War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts (including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), was champion of the three-year-olds and the darling of the tracks...
Reactions of Business to this were for the most part grudging acquiescence tempered with considerable confusion which the New York Times best expressed: "It would be odd indeed if an inquiry which began by attacking the evils of monopoly should end by attacking the evils of competition." Meanwhile, TNEC announced...