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...Tired Master. Even in the distressed state and anything-that-goes philosophy of U.S. book publishing, Scott-King's Modern Europe (which also appeared in Cosmopolitan) hits a low-watermark. It is hardly more than a short story expanded just enough for book form. The studied anticlimaxes and the resolute deflation of the funny scenes give it a grisly monotony; the book suggests a tired master who seems to be trying to see how far he can go in revealing his contempt for his large and profitable audience. Out of it, however, Scott-King emerges as one of Waugh...
...taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile . . ." In effect, "the school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...tank and the body, four miles inside the Palestine border, were the not-very-high-watermark of the boasted Arab advance in Galilee. By last week the Arab tide had ebbed back to the borders, and beyond...
Historian Edward Gibbon considered the 14 months he spent at Oxford "the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." And Henry Adams thought little more of Harvard: "Four years at Harvard College . . . resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...described as "moth-eaten" and partly illegible. The papers used phrases unknown in the 18th Century ("frontire spirit," "race hatred"). Horn's ancestors showed themselves ignorant of the Julian calendar, which was universally used in their day. Horn's maps and court dockets bore a 19th Century watermark and were written with a metal pen and in blue-black ink, unknown until 1836. The documents had been "aged," said the committee, probably with ammonia. As for the lead marker plates, the expedition's director admitted that Horn had found them himself, when the director was away. They...