Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little-known and rarely-tested portion of the world's culture will form the subject of an illustrated lecture on "Indian Architecture and Sculpture," by Dr. J. H. Cousins of Madras, India. The talk will be held on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum, and will be open to the public...
...Institute to have power, at the absolute discretion of its board of directors, to issue bonds against the security covered by the "A" certificates only, and to devote the proceeds to repaying the creditor Powers. The series of "A," "B" and "C" certificates to be issued substantially in the form of promissory notes of 1,000,000,000 marks each ($250,000,000), and these notes to be cancelled one by one as Germany pays her creditors billion after billion in each of the three ways outlined, namely from the proceeds of bonds, by cash transfers and by transfers...
...cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment "because the inventor was both an American and a Jew." His courage was such that his insinuations-although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians-were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy...
Certain Buddhist doctrines read curiously like pages from modern scientific treatises. The Buddhist Sutra anticipates the theory of evolution in such statements as "all life emerges from a certain concentration of matter in the form of a nucleus" (i.e., cell). Professor Einstein holds that perception is generally false because relative. Buddhists likewise deny truth to all appearances...
...over a short story or a discussion of a cosmopolitan problem. On the other hand it is possible that a large student public could be brought to patronize a magazine which should undertake exclusively to mirror their own life and activities. College newspapers perform this function in an abbreviated form; it would be the task of the proposed college "lit" to select topics of controversial or novel interest and develop them in a literary manner. The difficulty of confining contributors entirely to college subjects would not be the least of the trials of the college literary publication embarking upon this...