Word: thinke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found himself searching along the head table for his seat. Ab, At Last. At his right sat a Philosophy professor. Vag had taken Phil. A way back in his sophomore year. Now he didn't even remember what epistemology was. What was that course about? Oh, yes, Descartes. "I think, therefore I am!" That had been very simple. Spinoza... Spinoza... complete blank. Hume: If one billiard ball strikes another at a velocity of...Oh, well, who was on his left?... Directly opposite sat the House Master. God! This was the center of the table and sitting on the Master...
...newspaper in a column called "What Do You Think?" asked a cross-section of its citizenry whether they thought Harvard should pay taxes on its property in their community...
...think the name is important," he said, "but 'Americanism' is always good...
Almost certainly Hitler and Göring think air power will soon have made sea power obsolete, but they know the British Admiralty is full of crusty heroes ready to swear that "By gad, Sir, none of your dashed bombers has ever sunk a modern capital ship and they haven't taken Madrid. The Navy is still the Navy, Sir, and England is still England." In that atmosphere, which seems very favorable to modern Germans, an air pact conceivably may be signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers...
...John's College (Annapolis, Md.). St. John's is trying a plan advocated by University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also chairman of St. John's governing board. Mr. Hutchins' theory is that the best way to learn to think is to study how great thinkers thought. His plan for a college education: reading and discussing the 100 greatest books of the past...