Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though I am unable to point to an Alma Mater of my own, recent facts and figures demonstrate that the trained and logical thinker in the executive's chair is being drawn more and more from the ranks of college men. This is particularly true of bank and railroad presidents. There is no reason why it should not be equally true of elective or appointive political places. When candidates for and incumbents of such offices are not made the victims of shameless abuse and willful misrepresentation, we may find more college and university men entering public life...
Lucifer, advisor to the first thinker...
...tale is based on the Old Testament story of the most famous fratricide. The poet, however, takes a modern point of view, represents Cain as the first thinker. Lucifer is his advisory board; he objects to his brother's sacrificing unoffending animals to his unknown God. Abel is a terribly earnest young man who certainly should have been killed. The tale is declamatory and undramatic. The acting is fair...
...advertised for eight days by newspapers good, bad and indifferent. Chapman's picture appeared time and again: "Picking his jury. . . . Answering prosecutor. . . . Talking with counsel. . . . Eating lunch." And the "color" paragraphists described him: "Master criminal mind. . . . Intellec- tual desperado. . . . Misguided genius. . . . Stoic sinner. . . . Finely modeled head of a thinker.* . . . Artistic hands...
...Wayne B. Munn," said Coach W. E. Lewis of the University wrestling team is physically more than we had anticipated. He is a splendid type of the big man, and he has brawn, not beef. He has a charming personality, a clean cut American. He talks like a trained thinker, probably because of his college education...