Word: cosmical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look to see war abolished with the appearance of more effective weapons neglect the most important factor--the human element. When humanity has lost a certain fraction, It cries for peace. Before that time, the more threat of untried devices is unlikely to deter any nation which feels the cosmic urge of battle...
...season on the younger male specimens of the species is age old and well known. It would seem, however, that to females, both old and young, the full enjoyment of Spring has been denied until re cent years. For when the young male turns to love to satisfy the cosmic urge, the female instinctively turns to meeting and conference. Whatever may be her mission or purpose in life, it is a rare Spring nowadays which fails to provide a conference or a convention on a suitable theme. Last week* provided...
...have long speculated on the influence of cosmic bodies over the tides of human affairs. Within the last cen-tury a few really scientific minds have begun to observe certain regularities both in astronomy and economics. We are familiar with the course of the "Business Cycle," as described by Prof. Wesley Clair Mitchell and others, through inflation, crisis, depression, recovery. Its major catastrophes show a somewhat irregular recurrence, but if we analyze wholesale prices, both of manufactured goods and raw materials, we find a fairly regular cycle of about eight years between peaks. It is all argued with incomparable logic...
What, then, is this cosmic jinn that starts the machine...
...FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL - Thomas Hardy-MacmiUan ($3.50). Mr. Hardy treats the legend of Tristram and Iseult characteristically. His emphasis is on the sweeping, almost cosmic tragedy of inevitable love. The strange beauty of the legend takes on new meaning under the sharp observation of Hardy. The medievalism of the legend is caught in its form-a "play for mummers, without scenery...