Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form a sound judgment. Not one man in 1000 of either nation knows anything worth while about the other nation. This fundamental and wide-spread ignorance is the reason why the politicians and diplomatists have failed. How can 200 millions of people sprayed over half the face of the earth separated by thousands of miles co-operate intelligently if they know nothing about each other? The answer is that they cannot. The one real live bond between them is the spirit of sportsmanship and if the future of civilization depends on their intelligent co-operation then it depends...
...deep and lasting. Yet in short space it declined into talk and thence into silence, so that no one remains to write articles, or to urge reformation. The matter of the magazine, therefore, must be imaginative writing, stories, poems, and the like, as it was before the neo-Poseidus, earth-shaking young men were loosed in the college." Thus happily begins the current number of the Harvard Advocate, in an editorial essay singularly reflective and well-grounded in its turn of thought if somewhat humorously crabbed in expression. For those untouched, untroubled souls to whom the phrase "neo-Poseidous, earth...
...carved out of the rock cliff. It is about 40 feet square and every inch of the walls is carved with Buddhist figures. In the center there is a natural rock pillar which supports the chapel, on which are carved large elephant heads facing the four corners of the earth. As the elephant is not a native animal to China, Indian or Buddhist influences were firmly entrenched in China in the 5th century...
Professor Caselli, famed Italian seismologist (earthquake scientist), claimed to have perfected a device for detecting earthquakes 15 minutes before they begin to quake the earth. The invention, he said, will minimize the loss of life...
...Ghost is not a theory but a fact. The Holy Ghost did come to the 'disciples after Easter, and the Holy Ghost has always been present in the Church, and under certain conditions, the Church, by the power of the Holy Ghost, is the voice of God upon earth, possessing the keys of Heaven. The Bishop repudiates the charge that he "reasons in chains." He has gone, says he, boldly, with a free mind, into the hinterland of historical fact. He has set out, adventurously, on a voyage of intellectual discovery, ready to acknowledge whatever conclusions his reason...