Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the Victorian passion for theological speculation. "Mere agnosticism leads nowhere," he once wrote. "I hold as firmly as St. Thomas Aquinas that all truths, ancient or modern, are divinely inspired." Shaw believed in evolution, but was worried about the diverse effects of Darwinist thinking. He agreed, with Samuel Butler, that "by banishing purpose from natural history Darwin had banished mind from the universe." Shaw would have no part of a universe from which a first-rate mind (such as his own) was expelled...
After making her abdication speech, Dame Sibyl retired to her comfy manor house to sulk. Her butler told callers that she was not at home. But the Dame's problems were far from solved. Guernsey's head of government, Sir William Arnold, announced that "the people of Sark must make up their own minds. Knowing Sark people as I do, I think they will wish to continue going their own way" Dame Sibyl's great-grandmother paid $14,400-for Sark in 1852. It was now beginning to look as if the Dame could not even give...
Flat Sales. "I've been looking for this kind of evidence for some time now, but I still want another month before I take out the trumpet and start to blow it," said William Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. His caution was echoed by other business and Government economists. The leading indicators, however, reveal a significant slowdown in construction, commitments for new plant and equipment and general investment activity. Retail sales have flattened in recent months, and the actual volume of sales-discounting inflation-has not risen at all over the past year. The evidence suggests...
...TONY BUTLER...
...BUTLER UNIVERSITY