Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock of an evening and had not arrived at expectant Nashville. When he landed at Nashville at 7:55 next morning, the story came out. Darkness had come earlier than expected. The General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland gave him hot biscuits, supper, country style; shelter for the night. It is not recorded whether he was set to watch the biscuits, whether, like that famed cottage guest, King Alfred, he allowed them to burn, was boxed...
...whether for democracy or for decency. And finally he counseled his fellows to remember that, although "Jesus Christ is not God, but man; not the second person int he Trinity." He is nevertheless, "the first person in a mighty unity of human relationships," whose will must be done on earth...
...FIREBRAND ? Irreverent comment on the methods and manners of old Italian love-making in the days when Benvenuto Cellini was on earth...
...question submitted by George E. Cassidy of the class of 1926. The question was: 'Isn't it possible that there may be a philosophy gained by evolutionary thinking which presents a worship and reverence for future generations as an ideal and looks toward the development of Heaven upon earth through the use of science: and is not this ideal a fine and worthy one, capable of producing an equally noble standard of morality...
...this Universe-City I find every type of mind and character that could be herded from the remotest ends of the earth, and the supreme purpose of every man seems to be to make a noise in his own peculiar way. I have always been under the impression, my dear Usbek, that education meant preparation, taken in its broadest sense. But here it seems to mean accomplishment, such as that is understood. These Satellites all want to draw the eyes of their fellows upon themselves, and if they fall, they think their education is a failure. They crave applause...