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Probably some wave force, akin to light, electric or heat waves, is the ultimate essential. Probably that unknown force cooks or orients the primordial elements into the mutual relations they must have to be "alive." Such is the path of theory on which Dr. Crile, who believes that Life is an electrical phenomenon (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926), has been toiling...
...assertion, propoganda for one cause or another, and, in fact any indication of a bee in the bonnet of an author, are often considered vital in the opinion of modern literary critics. Likewise, enthusiasm and unrestraint are considered the ear marks of powerful literature. Therefore it is with something akin to surprise that one realizes, on finishing this sober volume, its genuine literary excellence...
...with a feeling akin to sadness that the same readers now grown to manhood, greet the announcement that the Women's Christian Temperance Union has taken these self-same rimes and jingles and converted them into Prohibition propaganda. But the old order changeth and Progress is an exemplary ambition. Perhaps Mother Goose willingly aids and abets the Noble Experiment. Forsaking her eternal kingdom she will be seen in the night air stealthily aeroplaning--of course her broomstick is antiquated--hither and yon disseminating the evils of drink. Yes, the Eighteenth Amendment is an honorable thing and even Mother Goose should...
Conditions closely akin to slavery are existent; but do not present a serious problem. Captives of war are kept in slavery until they are redeemed by ransom, but they are given good treatment and are not imprisoned. Women are considered by some tribes as chattels and like furniture or jewelry may be put in pawn...
...average undergraduate turned off his alarm-clock with the pleasant reaction that that particular Monday was a pleasant interlude in the general scheme of things. And turn about is fair play. So the Vagabond beckons his first finger of the year in the direction of his adherents and, akin to the Pied Piper, leads them up the marble stairs of Widener into Room U. where at high noon, an hour will be devoted to several remarks on Christopher Columbus, the "a priori" of last week's holiday. The lecture given by Professor Usher under the title of Economics 10a will...