Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ghost Plane...
...perspective on the true function of a university will be curiously distorted. If the present trend is allowed to continue unchecked, the university of the future will be little more than a collection of highly specialized technical schools, with somewhere in an out of the way corner the attenuated ghost of what was once a college of the liberal arts...
Walker vs. Tendler. In Philadelphia, a ten-round contest for the welterweight title was decided in favor of Champion Mickey Walker, who refused to give Lew Tendler (lefthanded lightweight) the ghost of a chance. Some said that neither man suffered overmuch from exertion. Tendler left the ring without a mark, and Mickey's face was the only part of his anatomy that showed gore...
...Negroes were secretly pledged to vote for Macartney. Dr. Stone refused to believe a word of this. Then on the eve of election, appeared William Jennings Bryan who, having once been crucified on a cross of gold, is devoting his chief energies to a pitched battle with the ghost of one Charles Darwin. Political gossip boiled. Now Dr. Stone is a Fundamentalist. He is a busy churchman who has to his credit one of the U. S.'s finest Churches and Church-houses. He believes ardently in the good old Bible and the good old Gospel...
...missionaries, by ejecting them from their not particularly lucrative jobs if they refuse to swear to whatever the Fundamentalists decree a Christian should swear to. And all this depends upon Dr. Stone. If the Macartney-Bryan forces can persuade Dr. Stone that it is a sin against the Holy Ghost to tolerate "liberals," Dr. Stone, a Fundamentalist, will vote with the die-hard Fundamentalists. But if their actions persuade him that brotherly love is not one of their fundamentals, he will vote against them. So, the Presbyterian Church waited for the psychological reactions of Dr. Stone...