Word: caresse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously, therefore, the solution of substituting a general survey course of all the sciences would completely miss the mark. It would be like suggesting that all who have not been aroused by the "precise caress" of history should be excused from history courses and allowed to read H. G. Wells and study his "kulturgeschichte." There is already enough general and inaccurate "cultural" knowledge in America, and our national fondness for cyclopedias and bibliographies is ample proof of this discouraging tendency. The real error in the editorial, however, is the assumption that a course in the history of science and learning...
While a knowledge of scientific methods is obviously a necessary element in education for modern life, this does not imply that one need have a zealot's interest in test-tubes and formulas, stresses and strains. For those whose passions are not aroused by the precise caress of the scientific goddess, little is gained by the manipulation of complex gadgets in the laboratory. A study of the history and philosophy of science would be for them far more significant...
Giddily, the Memorial Hall Clock let the wind caress her early yesterday morning in a manner reminiscent of her poignant Civil War days. But the ardor of her lusty suitor sent blood to one of her four faces so rapidly that it lost all sense of time...
...lowly potato, milk the noble cow, and feed the treacherous pig. Let our men best their walking sticks into ploughshares, and let our women turn in their card tables for threshing machines. Let us open our shirts at the throat and sing as the cool winds of Heaven caress our hot foreheads. Back to the soil! Live as our forefathers did! Wrest a living from the land! Such action is our only hope of salvation, our only means of procuring peace, indeed after a little of such action most of us will find ourselves not only back to the soil...
Hold him close to you with love's caress...