Word: groups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause. The carnage seemed to .have started when some Hindus became convinced that a group of Pathans-Moham-medans of Afghan extraction-had kidnapped two or three Hindu babes and were going to sacrifice them to Allah. Therefore, in the name of the whole Pantheon of Hindu Gods, stones flew and knives flashed...
...Indianapolis, last week, the apostolic, frock-coated figure of Evangelist Paul Rader, onetime prize fighter, dominated a group of determined antievolutionists. Defenders of the Christian Faith, they called themselves. Their plan: "To establish 48 nerve centres [one in each State] for the suppression of pernicious teachings that are undermining the very moral fibre of our youth...
...their activities. The important question lies in what steps the Federal Reserve can take to translate disapproval into the actual cutting off of credit. Discussions of the power of the Federal Reserve Board (as distinct from its opinions) is obscured by the popular conception of an all-powerful group of government appointees sitting in Washington and turning credit on and off like firemen playing a hose...
...always innumerable nice landscapes, portraits, still-lifes. Very few of them are incandescent with genius. Interest is in trends and tendencies rather than transcendent individuals. The last National Academy show was ponderously conventional (TIME, Dec. 17). At the 124th annual Pennsylvania Academy exhibition, opened last week, the advanced group was more numerous than in Manhattan, but the squatting conservatives still dominated the wall space...
...suggest the heights of the ancient Olympus. But they, along with Neitzsche, make better reading. Possibly one thinks too much of those beautiful Victorian beards. But as I write this I think of Havelock Ellis who has the beard, the science, and the literary style too. From this group we cannot exclude Henry Adams...