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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concluding, she said that psychology was not harming mankind, but was performing a tremendous service. "The psychologist gives man power to cope with the spiritual world, as science has given it to the physical universe. Man should find truth and not avoid it, because he does not dare to face it. Knowledge alone is power, and truth alone can make us free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMAN PREACHER RAPS COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...price of the Album, as before, will be $9 until March 31, when it will jump to $10. Early subscription is desired by the Committee in order that the number of copies needed may be estimated accurately to avoid excessive drain on the class treasury for extra copies. Subscriptions may be left at Notman's or at Mower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR 1928 ALBUM | 1/5/1928 | See Source »

...assembled in Chicago have proclaimed General Pershing as candidate for President of the United States* The American Legion has announced that it would lend all its support to the candidacy of the former chief of the American army. It is possible that the Republican party in its desire to avoid an internal conflict in the country will put up as its candidate Mr. Smith, the Governor of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peasants for Pershing | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Social Welfare. Dr. Lee Kaufer Frankel, who has been with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., created that company's welfare department, which has distributed millions of pamphlets instructing people, not necessarily Metropolitan policy holders, how to keep well, how to avoid illness. By education and organization and by co-operation with public health officials he has helped the good health of the entire country. The life insurance presidents gave to Dr. Frankel a clock and desk-set last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kingsley on Demagogs | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...Woman and Sin. Under this unpretentious title, John Gilbert, in the role of a cub-reporter, pursues Sin as ably impersonated by Jeanne Eagels. The climax of his pursuit occurs when he murders the source of the demimondaine's income; she perjures herself to avoid scandal; and then, because she loves the cub-reporter, confesses her paying to save his life. The able direction of one-time newspaperman Monta Bell, the able performances of Actor Gilbert and of Actress Eagels, make it possible to forgive certain weaknesses in the story. The weakness of the conclusion in which Mr. Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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