Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same reason that he fought the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, he opposed the McNarv-Haugen farm relief bill. Senator Reed's other Jeffersonian axiom is that the U. S. should not meddle in the affairs of Europe...
...galleries-to ever higher religious concepts which are exampled by a symbolism progressively refined, as the worshiper toils upward. When the supreme dagoba is reached and entered a crude and only half-hewn statue of the Buddha greets the eye amid carvings of supreme delicacy. Thus is symbolized the axiom that the Buddha is of a perfection impossible for mortals to realize or portray...
...Greek Axiom...
...racoons--and Eleanora Sears awalking. From Boston to Providence, from the Biltmore to Beacon Street and all the time with swinging arms and vigorous stride. Like hour exams Miss Sears' pedestrian expeditions have become traditional, if superfluous. She walks fastest who walks alone degenerates not only into a trite axiom but even into a prevarication when Miss Sears takes to the road; a tennis star and four--count 'em four--pacers accompany her, and behind trail two "massive automobiles". This is walking de luxe. But if Trudie merits a jazz band why not pacers and motors for Eleanora...
...Suffering Slave," or as more cheerful souls who had forgotten their Greek translated, "Bad News." The publishers were S. Baldwin & Co. of Cambridge, a non-luminous fact. "Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard," read the first sentence, "will be 70 years old on December 13 of this year." What axiom could be more harmless? "He has occupied his high office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable changes in the life of the University, has donated ... a considerable part of his personal fortune. . . ." True, true. But then, ah, then came the sting. "The time is certainly...