Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Nation for January 23 of this year, has drawn up a list of such errors with undue irony, and with fine disregard of the central idea of the discussion, which after all is not essentially invalidated by the author's unhistorical disposal of the head of Francis Bacon...
Thus, while the studious person could work in peace, and the activity man could go the merry round of pleasure unhampered by difficult scholastic duties, those persons who fit in neither category would be without any recourse. Perhaps, under the McConn regime such controversies as Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare's plays could be decisively settled, but who would sell insurance...
Round 19. Another able lawyer is Frank J. Hogan of Washington, D. C. He could write an authentic, an exhaustive, history of the Oil Scandals-from the point of view of Edward L. Doheny,* Albert Bacon Fall, Harry Ford Sinclair, Col. Stewart...
...Taylor's place among American men of letters is all the more note-worthy because, like Francis Bacon, he took up the search for knowledge purely as a hobby after the stress of a busy life of affairs. Too many scholarly treatises read as if written from a painful sense of duty; Dr. Taylor, a former practising lawyer, writes purely for dis-interested enjoyment, yet compares favorably with his professional contemporaries both in substance and in vitality. Particularly interesting to undergraduates should be the lectures of a man who is notable for having brought a penetrating simplicity into a field...
...affect in many quarters; the novel, the drama, biography, history, sociology, criminology, anthropology and primary education have all been touched by it for better or for worse. At the present day we are witnessing a momentously critical change in the attitude of mankind. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon formally inaugurated the scientific era, and man turned his face from God to the natural world. Today the emphasis upon the study of nature as a physical world is being to some extent replaced by an emphasis upon the study of human nature as a physical world. Backed by the methodology...