Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years, the University basketball team will board the train for New Haven at 1.05 o'clock this afternoon, prepared to-give their opponents a strong fight, even though it is greatly handicapped by injuries. The two fresman teams will play at 7.30 o'clock as a preliminary, and the final contest betwen the University teams will probably start about an hour later...
...final debate for the Pasteur Medal will take place this evening at 8 o'clock in Paine Hall. Six speakers have qualified for the finals, and will compete for the medal as two teams, the best speaker of the evening to be awarded the Pasteur Medal. C. C. Alpern '28, E. F. Clark, Jr., '28, J. K. Hurd '30, James Roosevelt '30, R. C. Weaver '29, and Norman Winer '29 are the candidates who have qualified for the final debate...
...first tube, 300,000 volts of electricity shot cathode rays into the first metal cylinder, which functioned as anode to the first and cathode to the second. There 300,000 more volts kicked the speeding electrons into the next similarly acting cylinder, where 300,000 more volts gave a final kick. The rays cascaded out of the apparatus at 175,000 miles per second-almost as fast as light, 350,000 times faster than a rifle bullet. Dr. Coolidge watched them, hiding within a lead-lined, lead-paned booth so that he might not be injured by the incalculable effects...
...exhortations on the progress of this form of religion. It was observed that ". . . there is much atheism in the church," that, "there is an increasing number of clergymen who conduct 'services' at which no prayers are offered and where no reference is made to God. ..." A final paragraph expounded the slogan, "Kill the Beast," with which the cover of the Annual Report was conspicuously adorned: "The hour to overthrow the Church has come. Arise, ye prisoners of the priest! Strike down the God superstition! The Clergy are powerful because you are on your knees. Stand...
True enough, most of this has been noted before. But Author Merz's book is the final all-inclusive footnote on Babbittry, written with a reporter's peculiar genius for marshalling an army of items into significant categories. It must be remembered, however, that a newer school of thought has evidence that Mr. Bab bitt laughs as heartily at his own humbug-Aeries and homilies as does the sophisticate...