Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religion has had an influence out of all proportion to its numbers. It is still a vital factor in the life of the world and of the United States. Last week the Central Conference of Jewish Rabbis held its annual conference (Cape May, N. J.). Prof. Cronbach, of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, gave an address in which he compared the sociological claims of 42 different creeds, and declared that he found in all of them the same underlying principles of social justice, especially in connection with protecting women and children in industry, providing mothers' pensions, resisting mob rule...
...drawn plans for Tagore's new schools in Bengal, for a zoo at Lucknow and a university at Hyderabad. At Bombay he has collected a city-planning exhibition occupying a hall 200 feet long. In Palestine he cooperated with the Zionists in survey work, including plans for a Hebrew university on Mt. Scopas. Geddes was a friend and colleague of Elisée Reclus, the great French geographer, and originated with him the idea of " regional surveys" to consider man in relation to his geographic environment. He is co-editor with Victor V. Branford of the "Making...
...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of erudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding Hebrew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux et Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...troubles of the present, resolute and confident in the contemplation of her glorious future-to England, old England, undismayed and unafraid, stately, queenly, mother of us all. To me, sir, I am proud and happy to say no less than to you all, like storied Zion of the Hebrew singer of old: 'Her very dust is dear...
...Ruppin has spent sixteen years in Palestine studying at first hand the problems of reclamation of the Holy Land. He has published several authoritative works on the subject, of which "Syrien als Wirtschaftageliet", translated into Hebrew and al of the chief European languages, is the most important...