Word: abutment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shooter those days ten years ago when you slipped down to the neighborhood theatre with a quarter burning a hole in your pocket. This is the western of the 20's recreated faithfully, with all the old thrills and all the old cliches. It has the same story abut the indomitable sheriff who cleans up the toughest town in the West. It has the same bad man whose gang rules the town with a cruel hand of iron. There is the lovely orphan lass from the south ho has come to live with her uncle. And in the centre...
Nevertheless, the report which appeared yesterday is outstanding for its sympathetic sincerity. If any generalization can be made abut something so broad in scope, it must concern the genuine if temperate liberalism; and the honest desire to search out and alleviate the injustices under which younger instructors now labor. With one exception, it is able to harmonize with the recent Teachers' Union document...
...case right for the wrong reason. He calls it a philosophy of wish fulfillment, but that is because he does not know anything about William of Occam, or Thomas Aquinas, or any of the mediaeval rebels whose scholasticism led them into the friar movement, and knows too much abut Siger of Brabant and Buridan. Professors DeWulf and Gilson have been so busy defending scholastic philosophy that they have never had time to use it; the time to condemn the scholastic view on Russia is after a competent scholastic philosopher has formed it, not after it has been conjectured by people...
Last week Architect Gilbert showed the nation what he thought the Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385 ft. deep, on each side of which abut lower rectangular wings. The temple-front is roofed to a slight peak above massive Corinthian columns, this portal and the wings to present a façade 304 ft. wide...