Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Watson: "Let all the earth be glad and rejoice with exceeding great...
...containing two housebroken rats. He calls them "Dill" and "Fred," in honor of Dr. Robertson and Fred Lundin. "What the hell do I care for Lundin? He's a dirty rat!" cried Candidate Thompson. "He is grooming this other rat, Robertson. He's the scum of the earth." It will be remembered that "Rat" Lundin helped make Mr. Thompson Mayor of Chicago many years ago, and that Mr. Thompson made "Rat" Robertson his Commissioner of Health. Anything is possible in Chicago politics. Mr. Thompson is even asking for votes on the grounds that he will not interfere with...
...came Dr. Fosdick's turn to speak. In his study he had labored over his topic, watched by the eight-inch crucifix, gilded, that he had mucked out of War debris. Now he rose, hair kinky, face pouched; said: "If Jesus Christ came back to earth He would work through the individual. We modern Protestants fail in some things. Our Roman Catholic brethren in keeping the confessional have pretty nearly wiped us off the stage in one feature of human service. Through the confessional they have built up an amazing service for the treatment of sick souls. A good...
...million dollars but only a nephew to enjoy them. He was 61 and infirm. His father, the Duke of Northumberland, had never married his mother, a Tudor lady. He had spent his life less among men than in the pursuit of knowledge- mixing chemicals, examining minerals, pondering the earth's origin, improving oil lamps. He had never been in the U. S. but it occurred to him that in such a young country on such a rich continent at such an epochal moment in the history of science, invention and industry, there must be ample room for a fund...
...doubt it is quite natural that Americans should infer, from the immense and growing attendance at American universities and colleges, that nowhere on earth are educational prospects so bright as they are in this country. Have we not 780 colleges, with 265,564 students in them? What more could he asked But it appears not only that Dr. Abraham Flexner, secretary of the General Education Board, asks a good deal more but that, in his view, Americans do not value education, and that conditions favorable to scholarship do not prevail in this country. That is to say, we have...