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...year-old Dr. Baker is a great-great-grandson of Dr. Thaddeus Dod, first principal of Washington Academy which became Washington & Jefferson College in 1865. In his ten-year regime he was liked by most of his trustees and by many a townsman. But his students found his temper uneven, his educational and religious principles too conservative. And though sympathetic, he was known to be pliable, easily imposed upon...
...praise from the safe distance of four or five decades, whereas the contemporary critic is in constant danger of blemishing his own reputation. Mr. Muir bore this in mind when he wrote this little volume on the world after the war of 1914, and he takes the precaution to temper his political prescience with such phrases as "Time alone can reveal the results," or "Whatever the outcome, it will rank among the great events of human history...
...Cynthia. For Lady Cynthia Mosley, fighting the New Party's battles last week meant standing up at mass meetings, giving as good as she got from hecklers of all the big parties, keeping her temper, sharpening her wit, pleading...
...always realized by the average sport enthusiast. In the latter every effort is made to accentuate the scientific principles of the sport and to turn the bouts into clean, hard, fighting for the sake of exercise rather than to make them grudge fight spectacles, colored by fits of temper. Goading and wild displays by the spectators are forbidden, destroying the possibility of adding the professional vulgarism...
...Menzhinsky is believed to suffer from ulcers of the stomach, and his complexion is sallow. He prefers to work, as so many Soviet officials do, very late at night, and his appointment calendar is always full of things for him to do at three and four a. m. His temper is easily aroused, but he appears to take sincere pride in his work. His job, as he conceives it, is to "Make the World Safe for the World Proletariat." His attitude is as universal as that of the Pope. Wherever upon the face of the earth Capitalism can be undone...