Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlanders the whole question of precedence and social rank in Washington seems silly. But as a British diplomat once said (with Irish logic): "Since the good God made us so that we all cannot get through the same door at once, there must be precedence...
...South the union labor movement has made the smallest headway. Of old U. S. ancestry, the workers were individualists, long trained to stand alone. Fanatically religious (mostly "wash-foot" Baptists), they viewed organized labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they...
Showman. As President of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce Frederick B. Rentschler was the god above the show. As President of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. he was a big power. As President of United Airport and Transport Co. he was both a much respected and a much puzzled...
...live in the U. S. and Canada. Here Allah speaks in the first person from the breathless vastness where He reigns. Here are tales of Noah, Moses, Joseph, of the great Horned Alexander; here is denounced the idolatry of those who worship Christ as the Son of God. The Koran was dictated by, or remembered from the sayings of, the great Prophet to whom Angel Gabriel brought messages. In heaven is Allah's "well-guarded tablet" and on earth, in the mosques of Allah, the Koran is for all to see on hanging tablets. They bear the Holy Words...
Beautiful is the "Prayer of Maimonides," 12th Century Jewish physician-philosopher-teacher: "0 God, Thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness; thou hast united in him innumerable forces incessantly at work like so many instruments, so as to preserve in its entirety this beautiful house containing his immortal soul, and these forces act with all the order, concord and harmony imaginable. . . . 0, God, Thou hast appointed me to watch o'er the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I, ready for my vocation." Medical students study this prayer, along with the "Oath of Hippocrates...