Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...bill in equity came up on demurrer and involved the question of whether the plaintiff could get specific performance of a contract to convey land, in which it was stipulated that time should be the essential factor. The decision was given on the presentation of the argument rather than the law involved...
Behind all this is the belief that America cannot remain aloof. That is what all Europe is trying, apparently in vain, to convey to us. They believe that European miseries must have some effect on American prosperity; that America cannot sit back and call "pay up", just because a few thousand miles of Atlantic isolates her. They demand "no sacrifice save that we keep among the nations of the world the great place we have taken...
...have seen the amateur wireless crank fussing with his queer coils and instruments and many of us have wondered what earthly interest was to be found in listening to the queer little buzzings that were heard. Suppose that these little buzzings did convey some kind of a message, what of it? If messages were wanted the newspapers were full of them. Why go to all the bother of studying a lot of scientific stuff and spend hours trying hopeless experiments, when anything of importance could so much more comfortably and easily be read in the morning paper? There...