Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sensitive inhabitants of the State of Minnesota shuddered last week. Already their habitat had been flayed before the nation's eyes in the novels of crusty Sinclair Lewis. Already they had been represented in the U. S. Senate by Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson. And now Minnesota was in a fair...
It seems impossible that hockey and dead cats should have anything in common, but history points to just such an association. The present style of intercollegiate hockey is the culmination of over a century of constant evolution. Generations of refinements were necessary to bring the game up to its present...
"Simplicity instead of vain display; originality instead of blind imitation; progress in view of this period of evolution and improvement to keep up with advancing civilization; national harmony in purpose and action; beneficence to all classes of people and friendship to all the nations of the earth: these are cardinal...
What with the Methodist-Episcopal Church, through its board of temperance and public morals, redeclaring war on intemperance (see p. 10); what with religionists evading injunctions against the teaching of religion in public schools, by obtaining rules to release pupils from school in order that they may attend Bible classes...
Now many a Fundamentalist can irk men of reason by simply opposing steadfast faith to inquisitive logic. But Dr. Straton's dogma is not merely steadfast; it is wild and violent. His answers to reasonable inquiry would irritate a St. Francis of Assisi. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge of Atlanta, mild-mannered...