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...Church, constructed 600 years ago. It is typical of the Greek Orthodox architecture, noted for its cupolas and turrets. I had a long talk with the priest who, with tears in his eyes and bowing very low, expressed his welcome to the American visitors and took the opportunity to convey the gratitude his people felt to the U.S. for the aid rendered Russia during the famine. It was a touching scene. He spoke of the acute schism in the Church, and gave us his blessing...
...good story but far from this author's best. The single book review, an appreciation by R. L. E. of Arthur Machen's "Hill of Dreams" slips easily into the category of distinguished criticism. With an enthusiasm that never becomes inarticulate or abstract in expression, the reviewer manages to convey to us much of the beauty of the masterpiece he is describing...
...part of the President's remarks which he thoroughly approved was the declaration that we would not enter the League. For the rest Mr. Lodge refers several times to the " League Court" and to " the court proposed and chosen by the League"-phrases that are hardly calculated to convey the same impression as Mr. Harding's speech...
...found, in the first place, an atmosphere of general goodwill and desire to cooperate which it would be almost impossible to conceive of unless one was living actually in the middle of it, and I believe it is almost equally difficult to convey to those who are outside the League what that atmosphere of good-will and cooperation...
...question. This "science falsely so called" is a shallow and spurious thing. It dogmatists about delusions and builds vast structures of thought on a foundation no more substantial than a tissue of hypotheses, guesses, speculations and assumptions. When half baked scientists, and even preachers who are seeking to convey the impression that they are very "advanced" and who have merely dabbled in science--when such men as these parade their scepticism and doubts, and seek to overthrow and glorious temple of revealed religion, with guesses for their battering rams, then it is time for those who reverence a living...