Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to Trier to be married. Although he did not live extravagantly, he spent more money than the sons of rich men, since "everyone swindled him" and he never learned to keep track of his money. His father, who discouraged his ambitions to be a poet or an original thinker, wrote bitterly about his son who "invents new systems every week and scraps them the next," refused to let him come home to marry Jenny...
...California put in at Los Angeles last week with George Albert Boyog, 20-year-old enlisted man, fast in its brig and candidate for the title of the Navy's most original thinker. Reason: While the battleship was 150 miles out at sea, Gob Boyog had seized a gun, tried to hold up the paymaster...
Karl Barth, called the saviour of German Protestantism and greatest religious thinker of the century, will be the subject of two lectures by John D. Wild, assistant professor of Philosophy, in St. Paul's Cathedral at 12.10 o'clock today and Thursday, December...
...footnote: "Mr. Herbert Hoover thinks this point should be emphasized. . . ." "The Twenties." Like its five best selling predecessors, "The Twenties" is lively, readable, honest, superficial, rich in color, anecdote and detail. Occasionally bumbling in literary style, it lacks coherence, is reflective but not philosophic. No great creative thinker, no intellectual delver into the remote why & wherefore of things, Author Sullivan has laid for future historians of the period an indispensable groundwork of fact and atmosphere. His story of the 1920 Republican NationalConvention, of how Strategist Harry Daugherty prepared the way and Republican elders reluctantly pushed reluctant Warren Harding into...