Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After three days of conditioning workouts, the University football forces engaged in charging drill yesterday afternoon for the first time this season. Tackling the dummy, strenuous blocking, and charging the machine were all on Coach Horween's first really hard program of work...
Genius. "Safe & Sane may also mean commonplace, unenterprising," said New York's Joseph Jastrow, speaking again. Few who lead significant lives are hopelessly sane. A genius is a deviate from the normal. In deviation there is hope, strength, unique value. Much of the most important work of the world has been done by men who have paid the penalty for their achievements in terms of their handicaps. Men are more susceptible to neurasthenia than women, women more prone to hysteria...
...service classification." The higher court ruled that because of the "close personal contact between the teacher and the taught," the school's "money income must be ascribed to the activities of the Misses Howland and Brownell, its sole stockholders, for without these two women's daily, personal work, the school would simply shrivel...
...With James McKeen Cattell (see p. 52) he was one of the late great Psychologist William Max Wundt's first pupils. Later he married the daughter of a Schleswig-Holstein publisher, and did newspaper work himself. On the Frankfurter Zeitung he ridiculed the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible plans, recanted, joined the Zeppelin company, learned navigation, of which he had some skill from childhood at his native town of Flensburg...
...great mausoleum the Metropolitan Museum of Art over an acre of Central Park in Manhattan, facing houses of the rich on Fifth Avenue. Inside are many tombs-tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, of exalted bric-a-brac, of Art. In the art tombs are laid away examples of the work of the great painters and sculp- tors of other times. There are Rubenses, Rembrandts,* Rodins, Titians, Tintorettos, Tiepolos, scores of time-proven mediocrities, one Botticelli. Progressive artists throughout the East have long given up hope for modernity in the Metropolitan. Few of them ever visit its vaults. Scathingly they view...