Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Studebaker got a Columbia M.A. and his superintendency in 1920. Thin, wiry, bespectacled, he makes his subordinates enjoy being slave-driven. Many a U. S. school has copied his system of paying teachers' salaries on the basis of individual ability, rather than for the job held. Not content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left...
Criticism has forms that run the gamut from a brickbat to a disapproving silence, but criticism as a profession is not crowded with leaders. Thoughtful U. S. citizens, dazed by the soundless flicker of statistics, deafened by the screams of professional iconoclasts, lulled by the thin whisper of unco-highbrows, should be grateful for the reassuringly human voice of Critic Van Wyck Brooks. He is known by the minority that reads him as a sound, tonic, unacademic observer whose interest in the tall trees of literary criticism has not blinded him to the more important U. S. forest. These Three...
There was nothing in Henry Raeburn's face and little in his life to suggest the best painter Scotland ever produced. His thin lips, wide-apart eyes and thick eyebrows might have been those of a shipowner or an engineer. His life was so ordered that almost any year of it might be interchanged with another with no loss of continuity. His miller father and his mother died shortly after his birth in 1756 in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, leaving him to the care of an elder brother. After an undistinguished education at Heriot's Hospital, he was apprenticed...
...Commission wants, but in Education, not Government. Down, cried the Commission, with pedagogy and its vast jerry-built structure of normal schools, teachers' colleges, Schools and Departments of Education. "The Commission proposes in the field of teacher training: (a) a drastic curtailment in the number of courses-often thin, arid and duplicating-offered in the principles and methods of education; (b) an insistence that persons engaged in training teachers in various branches of learning shall, first of all, be competent scholars in these fields; (c) the abandonment of the conception of a distinct 'science of education...
...Imperial Majesty had fied without observing the formality of presenting his sword. In Trafalgar Square the crowd surged like a rising tide and sang God Save the King. Through the thin light of a cathedral he Archbishop rendered up his solmen thanks and hoped that the day of the plowshare had returned forever. Peace on earth had come at last and democracy ruled in a world made safe...