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...holy words rolling out from their mouths of wisdom; softly now, then louder, getting deep when they roar of the Fiery Furnace; thundering the Lord and his works on Sinai; now softly again, slower, crooning how the Lord was in his good works at little Jerusalem; sobbing how the humbler Lord was broken and crucified by the white soldiers; and then blaring it out, then trumpeting brass-throated, with a belt-hitch, handslap, foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERSE: Trombones | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will explore other ponds before circling back to an inviting one nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Non-Fiction | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...something new under the sun' yet our new truths only amplify older ones and many of the older truths remain eternal-for example, Newton is included by Einstein, and Christ's teachings are still unsurpassed. And finally, I showed that the further science pushes its horizons, the humbler scientists become, their thought having undergone a long evolution similar to the growth of religious thought from tribal superstition, through literal anthropomorphism, to transcendent spirituality. . . . Simultaneously with my third lecture, Swiss scientists corroborated and added to my recent findings on mysterious rays of excessively short wavelength which impinge upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...offer young men a certain intellectual outlook, a certain type of intellectual power. Many students have no desire for, nor even appreciation of these ends. It is a question whether they have the capacity to attain them. In failing on this ground, the college often takes away those humbler virtues of diligence, pertinacity, and singleness of aim which might have been developed. Even in its best products the college not infrequently creates a discontent and restlessness, a dissatisfaction with the routine of business which disqualifies them for commercial life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE AND THE BUSINESS LIFE | 1/21/1926 | See Source »

...space given to the "first class" passengers were reorganized on humbler lines, the ship could carry a total of 1,000 passengers. If it should then reduce its rate to $125 for round trip, its revenues would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Cheap and Equal | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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