Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of French law and Mongolian folklore, Mabel Bailey (the Countess de Lesdain) maintained that the wedding ceremony was carried through in perfect good faith by both parties. Therefore the court declared marriage was "putative." It is null in law but valid in equity. Daughter Pauline is legitimate...
Argumentative Yankees, long irritated by the South's faith in an inerrant Jefferson Davis, are likewise distressed by your "Colonel's" failure to perceive any analogy between violation of the 14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early...
...first time in N. E. A. history, the delegates took official cognizance of sport as a factor of modern education. They affirmed their faith in competitive athletics, their conviction that it must not overshadow scholastics...
Bertrand Russell (1872-) is a courageous English mathematician who, though disillusioned about communism after visiting Russia, retains a tender mysticism even in his most tough-minded logic. His faith in mankind extends to all races. His concern lately has been with elementary pedagogy* but he may be watched for something serene in the next decade. Four U. S. philosophers remain...
...instead of the universe, as being more flattering to individuals, who might then consider themselves important, active parts. John Dewey (1859-) of Columbia University has had a broader acquaintance with his countrymen than James and is freer of European influences. He is one of the few scientific philosophers with faith in democracy. Pedagogy is his prime interest and he seeks to introduce the experimental methods of the laboratory to social and political science. He is a Darwinian evolutionist, stressing growth as the hopeful fact of life, utility as the guiding fact. He is greatly admired by Author Durant (1885-), director...