Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the deepest of the sleepers last week, was the chairman of a great oil company who slept the sleep of the just, weary from his pharmaceutical labors in the dispensary of the Federal jail in Washington, D. C. Not only the cloistered seclusion of prison walls but trust in his company's progress protected his rest. For, while Harry F. Sinclair slept and while he worked, plans were going forward for enlarging his company's outlets...
INFIDELS AND HERETICS, An Agnostic's Anthology-Clarence Darrow & Wallace Rice-Stratford ($3). "Agnostic" in the title is used broadly enough so that all tones from the lightest treble of skepticism to the deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of the contributors, willing or unwilling, are Poets Whitman, Byron, Job, Swinburne, Prosaists Santayana, Nietzsche, Plato, the Huxleys, Clarence S. Darrow. The collection cannot be called exhaustive since so many other "anti-religionaries" are absent-notably Voltaire...
Sirs: Apropos the British diplomatist's remark that "since the good God made us so that we all cannot get through the same door at once, there must be precedence," we have in our Washington contretemps what L. P. Jacks in Constructive Citizenship designates as among the deepest characteristics of the modern mind,-i. e. "an overdeveloped faculty for thinking in space, and an underdeveloped or perhaps decayed faculty for thinking in time. With space-thinking alone to guide us we are apt to think our work done when we have devised a social scheme, system, or envisaged-diagram...
...their faults practically demonstrated. Plays which are this found worthy of public production may be staged again by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which each year-offers one long play and three one-act plays by student authors. The productions of the 'Workshop' have ranged from pure pantomime to the deepest psychological studies, and a single Dramatic Club bill may include a verse drama and a modern social play. To the student of practical play writing, the value of such an experimental theatre as the 'Forty-seven Workshop' is immense...
Tomorrow afternoon in Pierce Hall, Room 110, Professor L. C. Graton will deliver the fourth of a series of popular lectures on engineering. His subject will be "The Deepest Mines of the World...