Word: thinker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...surprised that in my later life I should have become so good in taking degrees because, when a schoolboy, I was so bad at passing examinations. In fact, one might almost say that no one ever passed so few examinations and received so many degrees. From this a superficial thinker might argue that the way to get the most degrees is to fail in the most examinations." But there was a more "edifying conclusion" to be drawn...
...tougher the pressure gets, the better Chester Bowles seems to like it. A once-thwarted public servant and social thinker who has just come into his own, he loves his job. Where onetime Price Boss Leon Henderson let the heat frazzle his temper, where onetime Price Boss Prentiss Brown simply got out as fast as he could, Chester Bowles plows ahead with unconcealed pleasure, his big jaw jutting forward like the prow of one of the boats he used to sail in races to Bermuda...
Warped Minds. There was Julius Streicher's claim that he was a thinker, not a thug. Countered the prosecution: as Nazidom's chief prophet of hate and as editor of his obscenely anti-Semitic Stürmer, he had flooded Germany with pseudoscientific, racist hogwash. Said the British prosecutor: "He leaves behind him as a legacy for Europe and the civilized world, millions of young warped and distorted minds ... a whole people poisoned with the lust of hatred, cruelty and murder." (The other defendants pointedly turned their backs on Streicher...
...Under Secretary Dean G. Acheson of Groton and Yale, an impeccable lawyer, a man with an elastic mind, a political middle-of-the-roader. Next comes Counselor Ben Cohen, of the University of Chicago and Harvard, a thinker, a man of strong ideology (New Deal), a shy, unobtrusive worker who looks and acts more like a gentle professor than a man who has drafted most of the important new laws of the last decade...
...masters engaged in the four-day frolic was Mikhail Botvinnik, an engineer whose double-thick spectacles made him look like the right man for the No. 1 board. Topping the U.S. big ten was Arnold Denker, who was a welterweight, flunked plane geometry, looked as much like a deep thinker as most 200-lb. fullbacks. Cracked Champion Denker before he dug in, by remote control,against Champion Botvinnik: "I've just got to beat him . . . my dentist's name also happens to be Botvinnik...