Word: worded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...latter's exhibition in the gallery of the Copley Society on Clarendon street, I heard strange things. A pacifist and an intellectual of distinction kept insisting that every canvas was wholly "theatrical," using the word in the most disparaging sense. Now it is not to be doubted that austerity in America is a quality rare enough to appear to be "ex machina." But seeing a miracle, to suppose that there must be pullies and cardboard is to be really suspicious and of small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their...
...requirement grows short. Yale has already made her application for a unit at New Haven, and Cornell and Pennsylvania have announced their intention of so doing. Even if the time is not yet ripe for any action on our part, has not the moment arrived for at least a word to assure us that the University is actively engaged in considering how Harvard can best fulfill the plans which the War Department has proposed and comply with the regulations which the military authorities have deemed necessary to its most efficient operation? B. A. G. FULLER...
...which the Presbyterian Hospital shares, for a medical centre and a graduate school of medicine and surgery. For the development by graduate instruction and original research in science, for the improvement of the public health and the mastery of obscure diseases, such an institution would be invaluable. A word to the wise millionaires, to all the forehanded wise, should be sufficient...
...powers in the same way. We must utilize the researches of the scientific expert of every kind, physicist or chemist, physician or engineer, jurist or statistician; but we must have this work directed and organized by men who understand the conduct of business in the best sense of the word. The same spirit of co-operation is needed in order to bring our standards of public morality into line with the needs of the age. We must be equally ready to learn lessons of history from the historian or lessons of experience from the man who has had practical experience...
...pressure to influence the people not to renew them. Marns, though lacking in power, manages to hold the faith of the people in his project. The goodness of Faith and the integrity of Marns awakens in the people a sense of loyalty, and they stand by their leader until word comes that the legislature has granted the charter. Faith Stuart and Nelson Marns realize their love for each other when success grants them leisure...