Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were disabled 30% or more, to the scale paid regular retired officers, entailing $2,294,000 per annum (average, $56.40 per month per officer); Representatives Johnson (South Dakota), McClintic (Oklahoma) Luce (Massachusetts), Rankin (Mississippi), Vincent (Michigan), Huddleston (Alabama) opposed this bill but it was passed without a roll call. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $1,770,000 in the next five years to breed game-fish. ¶ Voted 169 to 159 for an adjournment blocking a vote on the Senate's measure to have the Muscle Shoals power and fertilizer project operated by the U. S. ¶ Passed...
...Palatine '98, of Chicago, III.; West Central, Dan B. Holt '90, of Fargo, N. D.; Southwest Central, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. '00, of St. Louis, Mo.; Southwest, Louis W. Hickey '10, of Dallas, Tex.; North Pacific, Rogers MacVeagh, of Portiand. Ore.; South Pacific. Roy James '09, of Los Angeles, Call.; Canadian, James A. Eckles '10, of Montreal, Ont.; European, James Hazen Hyde '98, of Paris; Orient, Viscount Hyde '98, of Paris; Orient, Viscount Kentaro Kaneko '78, of Japan...
...peculiarly true of human nature that "the more it changes, the more it's the same thing." Men used to call upon religion to support any system that was to their advantage. They had divine revelations about the place of women in society, the privileges of kings and upper classes, and so forth. But during the nineteenth century, in the Occident, the prestige of theology waned, while that of science increased. So now all the old prejudices are being refitted with imitation "scientific" bases. Some of them can still be kept up, although they are dangerously wabbly. Some are rather...
Work on the proposed $ 1,500,000 enlargement of Langdell Hall will begin late this month or early in June, it was announced yesterday. The plans call for additions to Langdell Hall which will make the building approximately three times its present size and will give Harvard University a law school plant without a peer in the world...
...more. It must be true, for the miracles have already begun to occur. The lowly Red Sox, nobody's toast, have left the cellar. Not only have they left the cellar but they are tied for fifth place with the Senators, and are what the sporting page chooses to call "perilously close to fourth place...