Word: unyieldingness
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*He himself invented the word Kodak. The letter K always appealed to him for its firm and unyielding appearance; "after long meditation and concentration" the letters grouped themselves into the word KODAK.
It is quite possible that in the person of William R. George, the father of the George Junior Republic, the man has arrived who can demonstrate to America that her present system of prisons and punitive treatment of criminals is founded upon a psychological misconception. To anyone who heard Mr...
To attempt to introduce Professor Copeland to members of the three upper classes would be to insult their combined intelligences. All have heard of his celebrated bons mots, and a goodly proportion have probably attended at least one of his "evenings" in Hollis Hall. As well ask a cultivated Londoner...
Never was there a scholar who was less of a pedant, or a statesman who was more impatient with empty forms and artificial contrivances and more anxious to lay hold of living realities. The League of Nations was to him not so much an international covenant as a process of...
But " conservative "-two years ago the word of the hour-is also suffering a political change. " He represents a stern and rock-bound conservatism that is rapidly becoming obsolete, even in the camp of conservatives." The illustrative "he" is Calvin Coolidge. Once he was "our pride" because he would deliver...