Word: controvertible
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...first aim is seriously to be questioned. There are no details to be found as to how the money collected is actually spent in this effort. From what can be learned, it is more than possible that the methods of the Federation work directly to controvert a good intention. The operation of the Fund in Russia is a case in point, where little money is sent in the first place, and where, on the other hand, there is said to the discrimination in favor of certain economic and religious creeds that are not universally accepted, and whose support entails more...
...simpler words, anyone who attempts to controvert Dr. Julius Klein is presumably ignorant. Dr. Klein does not err about facts. He knows them, knows how to get them and, when found, to reduce them to figures, and knows how to interpret those figures to attentive businessmen. Secretary Hoover brought him from Buenos Aires, where he was U. S. commercial attache during 1919 and 1920, to be his technician, his Ariel. People who think that every Jew is a commercial genius and vice versa every commercial genius a Jew have long believed Dr. Julius Klein a Jew. He is a Republican...
...controversy dodges the main issue when it asks about the possible outcome of a dissemination of evolutionary theory. When the scientist approaches the solution of a new problem, he does not hesitate to search for the truth of the matter, regardless of whether or not this truth may controvert some of his previous opinions. Regarded in this light, the main issue of the debate may be stated as follows: shall scientists and teachers be permitted to search for the truth and to teach it in so far as they know it to be the truth, or shall "he attempt...
...upon the world many were weak enough to think that the old revelations were thrown into discredit; they fell down on their faces instead of remembering the exhortation of the prophet to stand on their feet and face the glory of the Lord. The revelations of today do not controvert, they add to and ennoble the grand discoveries of the past...
...Religious Greeds" show that there is very little ground for the frequent remark that Harvard education tends towards atheism or agnosticism while the still wider misconception that Harvard is a Unitarian college is also controvert...