Word: unraveler
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Pensively the Vagabond flicked a key of his Old Underwood. Would it still be able to unravel those neat, printed letters which somehow lessen the chaos of thought? Could it still supply the right word, the proper touch to sentences in this foreign atmosphere? Then suddenly, in the vast loneliness of unfamiliar surroundings, he remembered again how Freshmen feel. How awful and unhuman and unknowable college seems. How important and lightning and complicated a History 1 lecture can sound. How vast and impersonal and uninterested the Union can feel. How suave and learned and acquainted everyone else can seem when...
...most rabid partisan can carp and criticise when the picture of the lower courts is painted dark and dismal. District courts throughought the country, and especially in populous and important financial centers, like the lower New York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...
...Greek tragedies, work in a publishing house. Three years ago he published a graphic, scholarly presentation of four Renaissance figures (The Man of the Renaissance, TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Longer (629 pp.), less brilliant, Catherine de' Medici is also more ambitious, seeks to unravel the mazy meshes of one of the most tangled periods in European history...
...Malayan ruler was in London ostensibly to consult Harley Street specialists who had been warned not to recommend operations, an outrage to the Sultan's beliefs. Whitehall wiseacres, however, were saying last week that the real purpose of the visit was to unravel a diplomatic tangle, the succession to the throne of Selangor. Two years ago the Sultan's eldest son was deposed, and, in accordance with Malayan custom, the second son was nominated successor. To this the British Colonial Office objected, nominated the Sultan's third son. To this the Sultan objected, said: "The British Government...
Lecturing and teaching Freshmen should be regarded as an honor to be coveted not as an evil to be endured. There are comparatively many men who can unravel the intricate details of a field but there are only a few Briggs and Shalers who can inspire students with the desire to learn those details...