Word: temperedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A lank, dour fellow, with a face like a withered apricot, a sandy-grey pompadour, and a thundering disdain for anything Republican, Representative Ford is one of the shortest-tempered men in the House. He has been a 1,000% New Dealer ever since he came to Congress in 1933...
"Eggs," explains the quiet-toned, even-tempered, lab-loving Housemaster, "start out as relatively simple and, to the eye, homogeneous masses. But actually they exhibit vast chemical diversity and as they divide again and again produce systems which become increasingly complex." And when he speaks of eggs Hoadley is referring...
Canadians know Mitch Hepburn as the Liberal Premier of Ontario, a tough, loud-talking self-made politico on the lines of the late Huey Long, whose political leitmotiv is making ill-tempered cracks at the leader of the Dominion's Liberal Party, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. They...
In the Governor's retreat in Puerto Rico's mountains, Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell last week pondered whether to be or not to be Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. On the university's palmy campus, its hot-tempered students got into a stew over the...
Sometimes Harold Ickes gets wistful, wonders why he is nobody's sweetheart. Said he recently: "I'm not a backslapper. I'm not a popular man and I know it. ... I'm short-tempered. I don't want yes-men around me. . . . I'm...