Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evils of the world today, according to many self-appointed diagnosticians, is skepticism. The Carnegie Corporation has set a lofty example in faith by giving over a million dollars to the American Law Institute for restating and simplifying the common law of the land. A more appalling task could scarcely be imagined. Not only are there decisions out of a past, hundred odd years to be culled but also in the future are the annual grindings of forty-eight state legislatures and one national legislature, all interpreted by a country-full of courts...
...partisan defense of the faith of Woodrow Wilson takes him to the following fronts: Minneapolis, April 28-30; Kansas City, Mo., May 1; St. Louis, May 4; Youngstown, May 14; Cincinnati, May 17; Washington, May 23; Atlantic City, May 25; Long Beach, L. I., June 1; and possibly to Albany, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon...
...Wright of The New York Globe, Herbert Bayard Swope of The New York World, Casper Yost of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat are conspicuous defenders of the new faith...
...Anglo-Saxon is apt to leave his thoughts in the dim background. There will be ample opportunity at Silver Bay to try the French method, not only with older men but also with delegates from a large number of other colleges. Anyone who is so firmly fixed in his faith that he has nothing to receive, or so strongly silent that he has nothing to give, will not find a niche waiting for him at the conference...
...degree. We have the fastest locomotives, the biggest hotels, the longest railroads, and the largest crops in the world, and 'these measurements are their chief justification. Not how fine but how much is our motto, and the circus has made of this article of American faith a dazzling reductio ad absurdum. The influence of Barnum, the father of Buncombe, on American culture is incalculable. The whole paraphernalia of circus terminology has been lifted bodily from the circus by the moving picture people, who measure their productions, not in dramatic values, but in thrills, shocks and statistics. The same thing...