Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to understand the position that a Graduate School of Engineering must occupy in the American educational orchard it is necessary to recognize the American university as a transplant from English soil (the college) upon which have been grafted the branches of certain graduate disciplines and professional schools native to Continental Europe. The tree of university education thus produced appears to have been well adapted to the American climate and soil and has flowered and borne fruit in abundance and variety. While attempts have been made in the past to include among these branches a professional school of Engineering, such...
...class, lived most of his life with a mulatto mistress, took opium and scandalized even Paris with his Fleurs du Mal, which combined polish, putrescence and pornography to an inspired degree. Since his death he has been manhandled by many a translator. Last week the latest attempt to transplant his hot-house Flowers of Evil was put on exhibition in the U. S. This time it was the work of two pairs of hands: Pulitzer Prize Poets Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon. Both French and U. S. critics sent flowery congratulations, seemed to feel that at last Baudelaire...
Soviet Russia's contribution to the problem of what to do with the world's spare Jews is to transplant them to virgin soil in the Soviet Republic of Biro-Bidjan, insulating the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. In the event of Russo-Japanese hostilities Biro-Bidjan will be "the Jewish Belgium," and smart Bolsheviks count on world publicity for "Japanese Atrocities" in Biro-Bidjan...
...rollicking fun. In "The Ghost Goes West," Robert Donat, last of the clan of Glourie, is forced to sell his ancestral castle at the moment Jean Parker happens along. He persuades her father (Eugene Pallette) a multimillionaire chain store tycoon, to buy the fortress and transplant it to the bonny banks of Florida. But unfortunately, a jolly philandering Glourie disgraced himself two centuries before, and was doomed to haunt the castle to take revenge on the enemy, clan MacLaggan. With Donat the man and Donat the ghost both of an amorous turn, poor Jean has a tough time telling which...
...individuals, and races, and nations to be themselves, and to multiply the forms of perfection and happiness, as nature prompts them. . . . The good, as I conceive it, is happiness, happiness for each man after his own heart, and for each hour according to its inspiration. I should dread to transplant my happiness into other people; it might die in that soil. . . . Ah, I know why my critics murmur and are dissatisfied. I do not endeavor to deceive myself, nor to deceive them, nor to aid them in deceiving themselves. They will never prevail on me to do that...