Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although arrangements are as yet incomplete, it is already certain that England, France, Germany, and Italy will each be represented by from five to ten delegates and that there will be at least one eminent thinker from Russia, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Poland, South Africa, Canada, and India. Not less notable will be the attendance from America. There will be upwards of 150 philosophers representing all of the leading American colleges and universities, and including all of the more eminent men in the field. Several university presidents including President Butler of Columbia, President Augell of Yale, and President Hibben...
...Clausens is a socialist and free thinker whose opinions caused his expulsion from the New York State Assembly several years ago. After reelection to the Assembly a few years later he was again expelled for his radical opinions...
...black cat which isn't there". The real success of the contest will rather be found in the mere fact of its existence. For, although Diogenes never found the honest man, he proved that one could earnestly seek him. Thus in throwing athwart the mists, the silhouette of a thinker, the "Forum" will, perhaps, have more success in broadcasting a thoughtful method of approach to argument, than in clarifying specific terms...
...this book we have a poet's interpretation of a temperament, a dramatist's portrayal of a life of extraordinary energy, a thinker's analysis of its complexities, a humanist's pitying comprehension...
...survived by his wife, who nursed him throughout his malady, and by a married daughter. He was a brave man, an honest man, and understanding and sympathetic man, and a man of the highest intellectual endowments. Self forgetful always, often absorbed and silent, a hard, steady thinker, he became, on appropriate occasion, the most vivacious and sparkling of companions. Sternness in him was wedded to geniality. Seldom, perhaps, has so uncompromising a moral and scholarly standard, a veracity so inflexible, been joined to such gentle considerateness for one's fellowmen...