Word: granted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...central thesis of Malthus, that population tends naturally to increase faster than the means of subsistence, is accepted by every scholar and is easily demonstrable to all who grant the soundness of the elementary theorems of arithmetic. We can raise the saturation point of the earth in terms of population by new discoveries, as heat raises the saturation point of water in terms of various salts. But since we can neither enlarge our universe nor emigrate from it, we can never abrogate the law of population by such means, if prolific Nature is allowed full sway. We are trapped...
...themselves with the Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. But, in spite of tumult, of shouting, the outcome now rests solely with Governor Fuller. The Governor may 1) appoint a committee to review the entire proceedings, with the possible result of giving the condemned a new trial; 2) of his own responsibility, grant pardons to Mr. Sacco, to Mr. Vanzetti; 3) may let the law take its course. When, in his office beneath the Golden Dome of the State House at Boston, he sits down to consider his decision, what arguments are there that might lead him to decide in favor...
...life, but rather a means to obtain those economic, industrial and social conditions essential to a stable existence." Next Step. President Coolidge having, as everyone expected, upheld Governor General Wood in vetoing the plebiscite, the next step is for the U. S. Congress to grant certain governmental and economic reforms which will soothe the independence agitation. These reforms were suggested in Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report (TIME, Jan. 3)-which, among other things, hinted that Governor General Wood's "cavalry cabinet" is the storm centre of Filipino dissatisfaction. (The "cavalry cabinet" is a group of Army officers...
...emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome. At the Institute's 60th Convention, next month, Chairman C. Grant La-Farge of the new committee will explain what the Institute means by "collaboration" among U. S. architects, mural painters, landscapists, sculptors. The Institute's representatives on the new committee. include celebrated teachers aswell as practitioners-bristling little Paul P. Cret, whom students at the University of Pennsylvania regard...
...Notre Dame" team lined up as follows: l.e., Douglas, Tickard, Hanna; l.t., Waterman; l.g., Movius; c., Parkinson, Dorman; r.g., Ticknor; r.t., Wood; r.e., Meadows, Hemminger; q.b., Wetmore; r.h.b., Mason, Grant; l.h.b., Guarnaccia; f.b., Hitch...