Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glance at the title of Mr. Calvin Page's new solution of the insoluble leads one to suspect that his novel doctrines and "discoveries" are intended as a powerful prescription to cure all uncertainties in science. The author would be a glorified doctor to the universe...
...century of intensified research, physicists are coming back to the old hypothesis of William Prout that all matter is made up of one fundamental stuff--hydrogen. The laws of conservation of mass and energy, and the law of limited transmutability of matter, too, are in a state of flux. Calvin Page disregards completely the efforts of such eminent workers as Rutherford, Aston, J. J. Thomson, Soddy, and Millikan, and boldly launches forth upon the exploitation of his formula, phlogistic in its nature, intended to explain all natural phenomena in a "common-sense" way. He is backed by no experimental evidence...
...Calvin Coolidge has been called a second Lincoln.' He is not. There is no second Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was distinctively an individual. ... If Mr. Coolidge, by his keen common-sense and his accurate perceptions, recalls in any way the figure of Lincoln, that is as far as the suggestion can carry...
There are the two existing summaries of Calvin Coolidge. As biographies they have their limitations. They tell the outstanding facts. Both are favorable to the President. But he remains a tough nut for his biographers to crack; they have not the leverage of distance...
...CALVIN COOLIDGE ? R. M. Washburn ? Small, Maynard...