Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carpenter, and that he is, in short, familiar with the best that Europe and America have produced. According to M. Rolland, Gandhi's fundamental argument is against modern civilization, which he says is civilization in name only and that in reality it corresponds to what ancient Hinduism called the dark ages...
Professor Saunders, after presenting the different things in regard to sound which would be considered,--its being formed, transmitted, received by the ear, and the operations of the brain,--and after making several remarks about its formation and transmission, made use of a remarkable instrument, which in the dark room threw a dot of light on the screen. By means of revolving mirrors, this point of light was made to sweep continuously across the screen, forming a continuous line. By a very complicated mechanism, this ray of light was acted upon by a diaphragm at the funnel...
...varying types: The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, The Century, etc., etc. The latest collection of them was made this Autumn under the title Cross-Sections, Julian Street was born in Chicago, but he is thoroughly metropolitan in manner and instinct. He is quiet, slow moving, tall, with dark, graying hair and a slow, almost drawling voice. His master is obviously Booth Tarkington, of whom he talks much, whom he admires exceedingly. They once wrote a play together, The Country Cousin. Their attitude toward modern life is much the same -both are tolerant, interested, but a trifle surprised...
...serum be saved for mankind. Spahlinger has already spent his entire fortune of $500,000 in the work, and Sir Stanley Birkin gave $100,000. Spahlinger refuses to exploit the treatment commercially. His serum is obtained from inoculated horses by an expensive process, 50 of the best-bred dark Irish horses (costing $400 each) being required for its production. Even with the new support, it will take two years more to prepare the serum for public use. It is not a quick cure, but takes a year or more in advanced cases...
...other hand, by requiring a man before graduating to pass a general examination in American government which he would take sometime during his college career, the problem could be more easily solved. This plan would demand no dark and foreboding compulsory course to be staggered through but merely a general knowledge of a subject which every American citizen cannot know too well. We would thus be taking another step forward in the promotion of better citizenship. J. B. Squies...