Word: impacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor K. F. Mather, of the Geology Department, will deliver a lecture entitled "The Impact of Modern Science upon Religion" before a meeting of the School for Country Ministers, to be held tonight at the Boston University School of Theology...
Increased lethal effect is obtained by softening the nose of the bullet to make it spread at impact. Steel jacketed bullets shoot straightest and farthest but bore clean holes instead of smashing a wide wound. Various powder loads have various killing power, but following is a rough table of the calibres and types of bullets generally recommended for various types of killing by rifle...
...goes on to say that the purpose of his research is to outline the crises that have arisen as the result of the impact of an industrial civilization upon a primitive people...
...When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed another star by its side, some astronomers proclaimed that the star had split in two. English and American astronomers were skeptical. Splitting a star in two would require an impact from without or an explosion from within of a force unthinkably great. It has never happened before...
...Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders, a council primarily of action, to determine the important strategies and maneuvers which will...