Word: whit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact is that none of these men cared a whit for what President Lowell terms "eminence" or "distinction". They wrote poetry because they loved beauty; they discovered the laws of the universe because they loved truth. In most cases, the contemporaneous world has been unable to appreciate the motives of such men. Evidently the world changes but slowly. Can such men be "enticed" into a society whose atmosphere reeks of "striving for distinction"? Hardly, I think. F. C. Bell...
...University of Berlin had just given him his Ph.D. and he was on pins & needles to get to Egypt. He had just been married, owed his wife a honeymoon. He got the University of Chicago to give him $500 to collect relics and set out full of enthusiasm, no whit deterred by his light purse. With his own money he bought a donkey on which his bride could ride if she grew tired, and set out from Cairo. The more relics he collected the more his wife had to walk, but Bridegroom Breasted tramped all the way and enjoyed...
Dartmouth hopes rest on Bill Morton and Bill McCall, who are both physically fir for the game. Whit Kimball, Bill Hoffman and Ward Donner will start, with Harold Mackey listed for the left end position...
...present management of the Journal-Post has not changed one whit because of this arrangement with Mr. Doherty. He has no representative on the Board of Directors, nor in our employ. We are not. therefore, concerned with the opinions of far-distant newspapers as to this arrangement which is of importance to the people of Kansas City's own territory, many of whom hope it will be the means whereby an unbalanced newspaper situation born of jorce-majeur will gradually be corrected...
Harvard men are snobbish, aesthetic, indifferent, blase, indolent, sloppily dressed, and proud of an anglophile accent. The novelty of such conjectures by these devotees of James and Neitzsche is no whit more surprising than their dictum that the breed infesting the environs of Cambridge is also democratic, lacking in artistic appreciation, interested in life, naive, go-getters, and good American boys. They are attired faultlessly. That is the indictment of Dartmouth and the sisters sufficiently far across the common. Dartmouth, according to the consensus of opinion expressed by its contemporaries is one long Wah-hoo-Wah plus a touching love...