Search Details

Word: williams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Donald Gregg '02, Dr. Edward Stanley Abbot '37, Frederick P. Cabot '90, Dr. William Healy '99, and Henry Sturges Dennison '99 have been elected officers of the Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, it was announced recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Receive Offices | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...Hoilis--William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes." An old favorite in the first of the detective stories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boards and Billboards | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called her a "dupe of words," characterized her esthetic "seeing-hearing" (by touch-vibration) as "a matter of autosuggestion rather than perception." William James, U. S. philosopher, admired her less philosophically, thus: "The sum of it is that you are a blessing, and I'll kill anyone who says you are not." Blessing or dupe, Miss Keller, now 49. describes these commentators and other ladies and gentlemen in her haphazard notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Significance. The U. S. has been called a, country without one original philosophy. But a spirit of no mean origi- nality manifests itself in the three follow-ing life attitudes: 1) New England Puritanism; 2) Negroid Epicureanism, now spreading from rural South to urban North; 3) academic pragmatism (William James, John Dewey) which learns a Western pioneer's and Eastern businessman's view of future and past. In this group belong the Carnegies and Kellers. Optimism affected Businessman Carnegie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

University Scholarships have been awarded to George Francis Robinson Heap '28, Walter John Arthur Huchthausen 2 S.A., and William Stewart Rogers 2 S.A. The Harvard Club of San Francisco Scholarship is held by Chester Orville Root...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | Next