Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...juggling as would have pleased the intricate minds of a medieval. If the Government is to return to any degree of normal efficiency, two issues must the faced, namely, finance and politics. And, according to the present outlook, it is almost humanly impossible to face them both, for the Frenchman who has the sanity to face the financial issue finds his political position too insecure to execute his plans...
...reply to Professor Mather's views herein contained I say with the Frenchman. "Il ne s'agit pas de cela." It is not a question of the results which would arise either from the suppression of the investigation and teaching of evolution, or from the freedom to continue such investigation and teaching. Each side of the controversy dodges the main issue when it asks about the possible outcome of a dissemination of evolutionary theory. When the scientist approaches the solution of a new problem, he does not hesitate to search for the truth of the matter, regardless of whether...
...little Frenchman also convened with the reporters who had come aboard. He asserted...
...exhibits and testimonials that most interested those hard-headed rowdies from Paris streets. Your Frenchman is a logical fellow, outside of his religion, and the evidence for spiritualism that was brought before the Paris Congress had a decidedly practical turn...
...toward the end of the third. Tilden employed a formula already made familiar to the .public in others of his superbly improvised dramas. He began with the artifice of making it appear that he was playing his regular game and that Lacoste was rising to stupendous heights. The little Frenchman, never a brilliant player, was at first so appalled to find himself facing the champion that Tilden had to retard his own strokes a trifle obviously in order to give him his cue, but once Lacoste had perceived what was wanted of him the drama moved forward with a steadily...