Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mercury fetches $1 a pound, but evil accompanies the wealth. Quicksilver is a. fickle metal. It is poisonous and those who work with it are usually affected. The pure metal may be absorbed by the skin or the vapors inhaled. Alchemists discovered this as they did most other facts known about this keystone of their hermetic arts. One compound of mercury (calomel, mercurous chloride) is a useful purge. Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron...
...Author Powys sings his hero's praise: "He had never been a fastidious man. He had got his pleasure from smelling at dunghills, from making water in his wife's garden, from snuffing up the sweet sweat of those he loved." "A great book is a great evil." said the Greeks. A Glastonbury Romance, no exception, goes a long way to prove the rule...
...Hyde is conceived here as a playfully sensuous figure rather than as a really sinister one. He bounds about in his new-found freedom like an overgrown brownie or a slightly cretinous baboon. Stevenson made it clear that "Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil...
...they are particularly susceptible to the influence of older minds, especially those of their masters whom they are accustomed to look up to as fountains of authority, wisdom, and guidance. Under those circumstances, with men like Felix Frankfurter, Roger Baldwin and others behind such a movement, its potentialities for evil at once appear to be tremendous...
...evil to be combatted is real, and the effect of selecting members of a state legislature with a view to their choice of United States Senator is good, but it is by no meaus yet proved that the direct primary is the read to the promised land...